www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 22 SPORT | 35 Hike in motor and Villa relegated as health insurance United’s Rashford premiums likely sparkles again SUNDAY 17 APRIL 2016 • 10 Rajab 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6769 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar 22 green AC Quake rescue in Japan Doha to host oil producers brands registered meet today with Ministry The Peninsula DOHA: At least 15 oil-producing nations representing about 73 per- cent of world output are expected at today’s Doha meeting to approve The manufacturing companies a freeze on oil production. The are based in countries including gathering follows a surprise Doha Importers and Japan, China, Korea and Thailand. meeting in February between suppliers prepare In keeping with Ministry Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia and for July 1 deadline. requirements, each manufacturer Venezuela, in which they pledged or an authorised representative must to cap their crude output to Janu- register the AC’s prototype using the ary levels if other producers do the QS-approved form and obtain a con- same, AP reported. formity certificate attesting the AC’s While markets may well react By Mohammed Osman number of stars, at least a month off any decision made today in The Peninsula before import. Doha, analysts predict low prices Rescue workers near a house that caved in after a landslide caused by an earthquake in southern The energy-saving ACs are will continue through this year expected to be slightly costlier than Japan’s Minamiaso town, yesterday. → See also page 12 and into the next as producers the conventional ones, but the cus- keep pumping to keep their gov- DOHA: Twenty-two brands of tomers will benefit from reduced ernment budgets afloat. energy saving air conditioners have consumption of electricity. “We put the probability of a been registered with the Ministry of The ministry has approved two successful freeze agreement ... Municipality and Environment until models with certificate of conform- at 50 percent,” Societe Generale now, with importers and suppliers ity with six stars, said the statement. analyst Michael Wittner wrote this gearing for the ban on conventional The energy efficiency rate must not 400 more medicines cheaper month. ACs to come into force on July 1. be 1ess than 8.5 BTU/hr, according The countries hope the cap will Eleven importers have also reg- to testing condition (T3 & T1). help global oil prices rebound from istered until now to supply the new ACs must be in accordance with The Peninsula and respiratory diseases, infec- treatment of several life-threaten- their dramatic fall since summer air conditioners meeting Qatari and the Qatari regulation ie 240 volt (sin- tious diseases, muscles and bones, ing diseases like cancer. 2014, when prices stood at above GCC specifications, the ministry said gle phase) and 415 volt (three-phase), gastrointestinal, eye diseases, the With implementation of the third $100 a barrel, though no one is yesterday. and the frequency is 50Hz; no other DOHA: Prices of 400 medicines ministry said yesterday. phase, prices of 2,873 medicines have talking seriously about the more Many suppliers and represent- variety will be accepted. have been reduced by an average of The current phase includes 400 been reduced in the country, said a dramatic step of reducing global atives of manufacturing companies ACs must have “difficult to over 26 percent, in the third phase medicines with the prices falling by ministry statement. This constitutes supply by collectively cutting pro- have approached the Ministry within remove” metal or plastic energy of a price cut being enforced by the 0.24 percent to 82.93 percent. The 62.5 percent of the total 4,600 regis- duction for now. two weeks of its announcement set- efficiency cards/labels, approved Ministry of Public Health. Some med- average price fall has been put at tered drugs in the country, it added. Prices dropped briefly under ting the July 1 deadline to phase out by QS, indicating the number of icines have become cheaper by more 26.13pc. The first phase implemented $30 a barrel, a 12-year low, in Jan- conventional air conditioners from stars affixed to the AC’s front part than 82 percent. The Pharmacy and Drug Con- in September 2014 included 1285 uary, but have climbed to around the local market, the Qatar General or attached by the manufacturer. Prices of 76 medicines have been trol Department at the Ministry medicines, with reduction per- $40 a barrel this week, boosted in Organization for Standardisation reduced for the second time. They has issued a revised price list, centage between 0.45percent and part by market speculation about (QS) at the Ministry said. → Continued on page 6 include medicines for cardiovascular which includes medicines used for 79.2percent. the coming meeting. Fingerprint archiving to go Arabian mare inspires Doha Metro train design fully digital by By Mohamed Shoeb modern technology. A symbol the advanced technology used The Peninsula of intelligence and speed, ‘Al in driverless trains. middle of year Faras’ – a name given to the The dynamic shape of the Arabian mare – has inspired Arabian mare served as inspi- DOHA: Qatar Rail yesterday the design of the Doha Metro ration for the front end of the By Sidi Mohamed unveiled the exterior designs of driverless trains and their vehicle and its lines define a The Peninsula the upcoming Doha Metro and dynamic shape. Since ancient shape that is powerful yet slen- Lusail Tram. times, mares have been prized der and elegant. The design is The display of the designs of in Qatari culture. For war or custom made for the Doha DOHA: Archiving of fingerprinting railway vehicles — ‘Al Faras’ for racing, they were preferred Metro project and the shape of foreign workers would go fully Doha Metro and ‘Al Mehmel’ for over colts or stallions since they of the windows resembles the digital by the middle of this year, Lusail tram — will give the pub- are more disciplined and eas- eyes of the mare. The interior a senior official of the Ministry of lic a glimpse of what the new ier to control. This relates to the is inspired by the progressive Interior has said. systems will look like when they nature of Doha Metro as one of architecture present in Doha’s Digitisation of more than 1.6 open in 2020. the fastest driverless trains in skyline, combining traditional million fingerprints has been The Doha Metro and Lusail the world and the fastest in the and modern elements. completed and the remaining are Tram project designs combine region at 100km per hour. The expected to be converted into the Qatar Rail unveiled the designs of the upcoming Doha Metro and Lusail Tram yesterday. Qatari heritage and culture with mare’s intelligence relates to → Continued on page 3 electronic format very soon, Cap- tain Mohamed Mubarak Al Subaie, Head of Fingerprinting Section at the Criminal Evidences and Infor- mation Department (CEID) told Syria rebels veto Assad for transition period Toyota dealer cuts the ministry magazine “Police With You.” “In coordination with the AP future or during the 18-month tran- that are being floated by various Information Systems Department sitional period during which a new experts in trying to analyse the cur- service charges and other authorities concerned, constitution is to be drafted and elec- rent gap between the concepts of we started preparing the electronic GENEVA: Two figures from the main tions held. political transition of the govern- archive for fingerprinting on April Syrian opposition team to the peace The announcement came after ment and the opposition.” The Peninsula during the warranty period. Saleh Al 17, 2014, which was earlier done in talks in Geneva said yesterday that a new round of indirect peace talks “It is therefore a storm in a tea Hamad Al Mana company recently papers,” said Al Subaie. they have rejected a suggestion that resumed in Geneva on Wednesday in cup,” the envoy said. reduced maintenance charges on all He said about 2,000 to 2,600 was put forward by the UN special which the opposition’s High Negoti- Opposition official Yahya Kod- DOHA: Abdullah Abdulghani and their Nissan and Infiniti vehicles by fingerprints are taken daily. The envoy to Syria in which President ations Committee, or HNC, and the mani said in Geneva that de Mistura Bros Company (AAB), dealer of Toy- 23 to 48 percent. The nine-clause procedure takes between 5 to Bashar Al Assad would stay in power government delegation met sepa- told them that an expert suggested ota and Lexus vehicles in Qatar has initiative of the ministry was aimed 10 minutes and then the finger- during a transitional period and the rately with de Mistura. to the envoy that Assad stays and in reduced maintenance charges for all to develop the automobile sector, prints are transferred to Passports opposition would choose three vice Assad’s future has been a main return “the three vice-presidents will their vehicles under warranty by six promote competition in terms of Department of the Ministry as a presidents. point of disagreement with the oppo- be from the opposition. We consider to 39 percent, the Ministry of Econ- maintenance and repair services and prerequisite for issuing residency The UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de sition demanding that he has no role that we did not hear this suggestion omy and Commerce said yesterday. encourage workshops to improve permits to newly-recruited foreign Mistura, said it was not an offer but in Syria’s future even during the tran- because we categorically reject it.” The reduced charges will come into the efficiency and quality of their workers, he explained.