ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 9 May 2013 29 Jumada II 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5694 Price: QR2 Premier Al Sadd, Al stresses role of Rayyan in private sector semi-finals Business | 21 Sport | 32 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Govt to fix fish Qaradawi in Gaza OPINION Assad will prices to curb not fall hen WArab revolutions started, manipulation there were high hopes that Arab countries Price list to be released daily will be freed from dic- Khalid Al Sayed DOHA: The government is tak- at the central market. tatorships EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ing steps to tighten screws on They, however, offer price dis- and corrupt the retail fish trade and check counts on certain items and make rulers, and price manipulation by fixing the announcements through the there will be democratisation, rates of fish and other seafood media and by sending text mes- rule of law and peaceful tran- items like prawns and lobsters sages to their regular customers. sition of power. on a daily basis. Despite the higher prices, an This optimism, however, The state-controlled pricing increasing number of custom- has waned because of the will likely apply to fish auctioned ers now prefer shopping malls developments in Arab Spring at the central market as also to to avoid the unfriendly environ- countries, as many of them imported stocks. ment at the central fish market. are embroiled in conflicts over Retail prices will be fixed by the As a result, sales at the cen- narrow interests that have Consumer Protection Department tral market have been plummet- nothing to do with the aspira- (CPD) and a price list will be ing and as a boosting effort the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh (left) holds the hand of Egyptian cleric and Chairman of the International tions of the people. The politi- released every morning. evening auctions were also begun Union of Muslim Scholars Sheikh Yousuf Al Qaradawi on his arrival at Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza cal scene has degenerated into The CPD, an arm of the a while ago. But that has not Strip yesterday. The cleric arrived for a three-day visit to the Gaza Strip with a delegation of Muslim scholars. silly things, which have noth- Ministry of Business and Trade, helped sales to pick up. ing to do with national issues Report on page 4 also fixes and monitors daily pric- The State Cabinet yesterday or problems, giving rise to the ing of fresh vegetables and fruits. approved a draft decision of the impression that Arab Spring The price-fixing move for fish Ministry of Business and Trade countries are stuck in a mire. and other seafood items by the that specifies where seafood auc- Now, come to Syria. CPD is aimed at benefiting the tions would take place and how Everybody thought that consumers who are left at the and how their rates — both retail Qatar Petroleum Syrian people would win mercy of the wholesalers and and wholesale — will be fixed. PM urges family the battle against Bashar Al retailers. The draft decision of the plans four IPOs Assad, and I was one of them, They manoeuvre the prices Ministry also talks about con- and expected a quick over- based on daily catch and demand trolling the wholesale and retail throw of Assad along with and supply. Retailers at the pricing of imported fish and other worth $50bn firms to get listed his Ba’athist regime which has Central Fish Market as well as seafood items. been in power for more than at other outlets such as malls and The draft is expected to be rati- BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB half a century. The situation hypermarkets will be required to fied by the higher-ups for imple- DOHA: The Prime Minister both — the owners as well as the in Syria changed quickly and prominently display price tags on mentation soon. There is the DOHA: Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Foreign Minister, H E national economy. dramatically as an unprec- a daily basis. likelihood the role of middlemen has plans to list four of its sub- Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin The national economy would edented crackdown on the Consumers have long been com- in the wholesale trade of fresh sidiaries on the Qatar Exchange Jabor Al Thani, lamenting a grow immensely if private and people resulted in armed plaining that shopping complexes vegetables and fruits might also (QE) in coming years. QP is limited number of listed com- family-owned businesses go pub- conflicts. The international like malls and hypermarkets sell be altered for the benefit of the expected to issue initial public panies on the Qatari bourse, lic, he added. community proved shock- fish and other fresh seafood stocks consumers. offerings (IPOs) worth about said yesterday the number An official in-charge of list- ingly incapable of taking any at prices much higher than those THE PENINSULA $50bn, Dr Hussein Ali Al did not reflect the robust size ing on the bourse, Abdulaziz Al measures to stop these massa- Abdullah, Chairman of QE told and vibrancy of the national Emadi, told the event the QE had cres. This changed the Syrian reporters yesterday on the side- economy. contacted some 80 family-owned uprising into a regional and Neighbourhood stores get extension lines of a forum of “Listing of Larger business entities — a businesses to go public but most international conflict, and Private Companies: Supporting hint at big family-owned busi- of them have expressed concern the blood of Syrians became DOHA: Neighbourhood stores to extend the licences of the Qatar’s National Vision” organ- nesses and other private sector as they believe they would lose a negotiating card between in the country have got a new grocery stores in residential ised by QE. However, he neither players — still remained out of the control of their businesses and the United States and Russia. lease of life as the government areas. The draft is to be ratified revealed the names of the QP ambit of the stock market (Qatar decision-making. The international commu- has decided to further extend by the higher-ups. Some store subsidiaries nor gave any spe- Exchange), the Premier rued. The CEO of Qatar Exchange, nity and the US have disap- their licences for a year until operators this newspaper spoke cific date of listing. Doha Global Opening a conference that Rashid Al Mansoori, assured the pointed us. The US is still early July 2014. to yesterday, however, said they Investment Co, a new $12bn mulled ways to encourage private private sector of all help to make resisting an intervention to The State Cabinet yester- were expecting the extension as investment firm, backed by the companies to go public to help the listing process easier. serve its own interests and day approved a draft decision plans to relocate them were not state, is expected to offer shares the country achieve its National The Qatari bourse has 42 listed please the Russians, as if both of the Ministry of Business and yet finalised. THE PENINSULA to the public in May. Vision, the PM exhorted family- entities and the last listing was have struck a secret deal to Trade, the licensing authority, Continued on page 5 THE PENINSULA owned businesses to seek listing, done some three years ago. keep Assad in power until the Continued on page 4 saying that would be beneficial for THE PENINSULA end of his term in 2014. Continued on page 6 Port disaster Turkey plans to have indigenous N-industry Hackers launched 61 ANKARA: Turkey wants to build a home-grown nuclear attacks in three years industry over the next dec- ade as it seeks to cut reliance BY AZMAT HAROON individual hackers have been on costly imported oil and gas, coordinating with other groups even though the nuclear new- DOHA: In a startling disclo- in the region to do so. comer outsourced its first two sure, a cyber security expert Beek said that the trend of atomic power plants to foreign said that Qatar-based hackers hacker-groups in the Arab- firms. The fast-growing nation carried out some 61 attacks in speaking world started with ‘Team of 76 million people, which faces the last three years. The finding Evil’ from Morocco in 2003-04, a ballooning energy deficit, last is based on a survey. when it became one of the first week awarded a $22bn deal to a Known as ‘Qatar-Attack’, the groups to carry out politically- Japanese-French consortium to hackers’ group is believed to be motivated cyber attacks against build its second nuclear power loosely organised and consists of government websites in the plant at Sinop on the Black Sea members of general ‘Arabic hack- Middle East. coast. Full report on page 12 ing discussion groups’. “Inspired by the Anonymous “The 61 reported attacks movement, in the last two years started actively in June 2011 and a many groups started to explore Today’s edition few attacks have been reported in and attack or deface websites,” he 2013,” Christian Beek, Director of said. includes a special Incident Response and Forensics Government websites are most supplement on EMEA, McAfee Strategic persistently attacked, followed Security Foundstone Services, told by business, entertainment and The Peninsula. Domains in more sports websites. Cyber attacks than 11 countries on five different based in this region are primarily continents have been attacked by driven by political causes, which ‘Qatar-Attack’ so far, a survey by are increasingly driven by online McAfee reveals. assaults against governments on The collapsed control tower at Genoa’s port in Italy yesterday.