ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 8 January 2014 7 Rabial I 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5938 Price: QR2 Oil above $107 Pakistan on US, Mideast hope sun and supply woes spinners shine Business | 17 Sport | 25 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Premier meets Irish PM Chemical arms Kahramaa ‘powerless’ material shipped out of Syria DAMASCUS: The first ship- ment of chemical weapons to stop water wastage materials left Latakia port yes- terday under a deal to rid Syria of its chemical arsenal, the joint mission overseeing the disar- Inspectors need court order to enter homes mament said. A first quantity of priority DOHA: Public utility and not waste the precious part in the debate said the chemical materials was moved Kahramaa yesterday admitted utilities. House should propose to the from two sites to the port of that it was not able to effec- The official was speaking at authorities concerned that Latakia for verification and was tively implement a law that was the Central Municipal Council once a villa design has been then loaded onto a Danish com- issued a few years ago to help (CMC), which, at a regular approved no alterations should mercial vessel. check the wastage of water and session yesterday, was discuss- be allowed. The ship then sailed into inter- electricity by citizens because ing the issue of locals wasting The members said parti- national waters, eight days after its inspectors need a court water and electricity. tioned villas led to crowding in a December 31 deadline for the order to enter homes. Earlier, the vice-chairman of localities and put the families operation to begin was missed. Fahad bin Saud Al Hanzab, the CMC, Jassem bin Abdullah residing therein at a huge risk Escorted by Chinese, Danish, head of monitoring for the Al Malki, said while taking part due to the immense load put on Norwegian and Russian naval ves- campaign to rationalise the in the discussions that although electricity supplies, especially. sels, the ship will stand offshore use of water and electricity at the rationalisation law banned A third issue the public rep- until more chemicals arrive at Kahramaa, said: “We are doing the use of water for washing resentative body took up for Latakia and then return to col- all we can to help check the cars and watering lawns within discussion related to mush- lect them. waste of the precious utilities, homes, a large number of peo- rooming massage centres in See also page 6 but our inspectors are con- ple were continuing with these the country. strained by the fact that they practices and not respecting The CMC said it was the Obama to meet need a court order to enter a the law. responsibility of the Supreme home to check the waste”. “What we need is more inten- Council of Health to coor- lawmakers on Al Hanzab said since the sified monitoring of homes, dinate with the Ministry law came into force in 2008, especially. These are precious of Municipality and Urban surveillance some 3,000 violations have utilities,” said Al Malki, hint- Planning and the Ministry of WASHINGTON: President been detected. He, however, ing that the law had failed to Economy and Commerce, to Barack Obama is stepping up gave no details of action taken achieve its goal. make sure that qualified physi- consultations with the intelli- against the violators. Water and The other issue the CMC otherapists were employed by gence community this week, as electricity are supplied free to raised related to large-scale these centres. he nears a final decision on rein- citizens. partitioning of villas to make The members said that to do ing in US spy agencies over mass “We are continuing with our small, makeshift, pigeonhole- the above, a separate law was phone-data sweeps. Obama will monitoring,” the official added, like residential units for lower needed that would frame rules meet lawmakers charged with hinting that his department and middle-income expatriate for massage centres and ensure overseeing US espionage agen- was helpless and could only families. their regular monitoring. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser cies and top intelligence figures urge people to respect the law The CMC members taking THE PENINSULA bin Khalifa Al Thani met visiting Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny yes- as he prepares to unveil his plans terday and reviewed ties. See also page 17 in a speech to the American peo- ple, who have been spooked by the scope of surveillance. First dinosaurs Old Ghanem property sold for record price in region DOHA: A piece of real estate property puts Doha in league London ($42,000 to $46,000), can’t prevent steep price esca- About the QR230m property STOCKHOLM: An interna- covering an area of just 2,167 with global metropolises like Geneva ($29,000 to $32,000) and lations,” said real estate expert sale in Old Ghanem, whose basic tional team of paleontologists square metres in the city has London, Geneva and Singapore, Singapore ($25,000 to $28,000). Khalifa Al Mueslemani. details were part of the real has for the first time identified fetched its owner a record where real estate is third, fourth No GCC or Middle Eastern He said the Old Ghanem prop- estate registration details for last dinosaur species that lived in QR230m, with the rate per and fifth most expensive in the city, including Dubai, Makkah erty deal of QR230m concluded week posted on the justice min- the Arabian peninsula, Swedish square metre being QR106,000 world after Monaco and Hong and Abu Dhabi, find a place last week (December 29, 2013 to istry’s website, he said the land scientists said yesterday. ($29,100) — arguably, the high- Kong. among the top 10. January 2, 2014) should be con- could be used for hotel apart- The researchers found teeth est in the country so far. A quick look at real estate Although real estate prices are sidered one-off because there is ments or for a shopping complex. and bones dating from around 72 The property in question is prices at some of the above loca- not uniform, even in one area in hardly any land or property up “This is an area where prop- million years ago in the north- located in the Old Ghanem area, tions reveals that Monaco is the Doha, the way prices are zoom- for grabs in that area. erties meet most lucrative western part of the region, along near Bank Street in the heart of most expensive in the world, ing the day shouldn’t be far when “It’s a prime locality and the requirements investors look for. the coast of the Red Sea in what Doha, and has a large number of commanding a per square metre the city finds a place among the property is located in a busy People have money to buy such is today Saudi Arabia, Uppsala apartments. rate of $57,000 to $64,000. world’s top 10 cities where prop- commercial area. In this area, real estate but there is a serious University said in a statement. But, according to a real estate With property rates rang- erty is the most expensive. buildings are allowed to have 11 shortage,” he reiterated. The area is now a desert, but expert, the buyer would most ing from $49,000 to $54,000 “Yes, if the demand for land stories, so that must also have Al Muslemani said banks are at the time it was a beach on the likely demolish the buildings and per square metre, Hong Kong’s from cash-rich investors contin- been a factor in its high pric- also readily providing financing African coast. use the land for his own project. real estate market is the sec- ues to grow at today’s pace and ing,” Al Muslemani told this for real estate. See also page 16 The price offered for the above ond most expensive, followed by supplies remain as restricted, you newspaper. THE PENINSULA AGENCIES Qatar triumph Parts of America Saudi may limit expats’ colder than Mars stay to eight years CHICAGO: A deadly chill had much of the United States and RIYADH: The Saudi Arabian However, expatriate profes- Canada in its grip yesterday, government is mulling over sionals whose degrees have been as a record-breaking cold snap proposals to expand the Nitaqat attested by Saudi authorities will brought temperatures lower system, a labour policy to create be exempted from the salary rule. than on the surface of Mars. jobs for its nationals, in its bid According to the draft law, a It was so cold in Chicago that to reduce the number of foreign Saudi worker who earns a salary the polar bear at the Lincoln Park workers and create more jobs of 4,000 Saudi riyals per month zoo — who admittedly had not with higher salaries for its citi- will account for a full national built up the winter fat stores of zens in the country. employee, while those who receive her wild cousins — was brought Under the proposed law, expa- 2,000 Saudi riyals a month will inside to warm up. triates in the country would be be treated as half a national All of Canada and all the able to stay a maximum of eight employee in the Nitaqat system. US states bar tropical Hawaii years and would be discouraged The ministry said an expatriate recorded temperatures below from bringing their families, Arab who has completed four years in freezing yesterday, even usually News reported on Monday.