BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 8 Sanchez names squad for matches against Ecuador Oil market is balanced, says energy minister and Uzbeks published in QATAR since 1978 MONDAY Vol. XXXIX No. 10965 October 8, 2018 Moharram 28, 1440 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Enable wins Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Qatar’s trade In brief with countries QATAR | Infrastructure taking part in Lusail Expressway wins Best Project award Lusail Expressway has won the IPEC totalled Engineering News Record (ENR) award for 2018 Global Best Project in the Roads/Highways category. The projects that have won the award are considered examples of QR20bn in ’17 innovation, safety, performance. They overcame challenges during their designing and building phases, atar’s trade volume with 11 Partnerships (PPP) opportunities, and met the construction quality countries that are participat- among others. with a special emphasis on the Qing in the International Prod- The conference will also be a launch- diversity of the global project teams ucts Exhibition and Conference (IPEC), pad for new projects, initiatives, and and their collaboration. Page 3 His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani (centre) presents the trophy to Prince Saud bin Khalid bin Abdullah al-Saud which begins today, totalled nearly strategies that serve Qatar’s National (right), son of Prince Khalid bin Abdullah bin Abdulrahman al-Saud, Enable’s owner, as French Agriculture Minister Stephane QR20bn in 2017, offi cial fi gures show. Vision and promote mutually-benefi - EAST ASIA | Disaster Travert looks on after the filly won the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp racecourse in Paris yesterday. Sport The three-day event is being held cial economic co-operation. Pages 1, 2 under the patronage of HE the Prime The event will highlight the most Indonesia tsunami death Minister and Minister of Interior important investment opportunities toll climbs to 1,763 Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa and explore ways to overcome the chal- Indonesia’s disaster agency said that al-Thani, at the Doha Exhibition and lenges of expanding investments in the the death toll from the earthquake Convention Centre. region. and tsunami that struck Sulawesi The participating countries are; Organisers said the exhibition will island has risen to 1,763, with more Turkey (two-way trade volume of open up new horizons for diverse busi- than 5,000 feared missing. The Kahramaa set to award QR4.9bn), Pakistan (QR5.86bn), Oman nesses in Qatar and allow investors di- agency said that off icials are trying (QR4bn), Kuwait (QR3bn), Jordan rect access to projects in the country. A to confirm the number still missing (QR1.07bn), Iran (QR357mn), Morocco large number of politicians, business in several villages obliterated when (QR330.5mn), Tunisia (QR208.8mn), leaders and government offi cials from the quake caused loose soil to liquefy, Algeria (QR166.5mn), Tajikistan across the Middle East and North Afri- sucking houses into deep mud and solar power plant tender (QR1.5mn) and Azerbaijan (QR9.5mn). ca (Mena) will participate in the event. burying occupants. The number of IPEC will host a specialised confer- The exhibition will host a Qatari pa- fatalities is likely to increase once the ence that brings together representa- vilion that will bring together repre- level of damage has been assessed in QNA power plant, with a total capacity tives of participating countries, busi- sentatives of several ministries and gov- rural areas. Off icials also said they will Doha of at least 700MW. ness associations, private business ernment bodies as well as a number of also stop searching for the bodies of The project will be based on Public- owners, and entrepreneurs, with Qatari local companies supervised by the Qatar victims among the ruins of buildings. Private Partnership (PPP) concept for private and public bodies, to examine Chamber and Qatar Development Bank. Page 13 atar General Electricity and the encouragement of investment in Qatar’s achievements, projects, and The Ministry of Economy and Com- Water Corp (Kahramaa) an- large-scale projects. plans towards the Qatar National Vi- merce is among the major participants AMERICA | Accident Qnounced a public tender to The project is structured as Build sion 2030. of IPEC 2018. The ministry’s par- establish Qatar’s fi rst large-scale solar Own Operate Transfer (BOOT) for 25 The conference will touch upon ticipation refl ects Qatar’s keenness to 20 killed in upstate Photovoltaic (PV) power plant will be years, where the ownership will be fundamental topics including; the re- strengthen economic co-operation New York limo horror released before 2018-end. transferred to Kahramaa after the end cently drafted National Development and bolster bilateral trade with its key Twenty people have been killed after The President of Kahramaa Eng. of the term. Strategy 2017-2022, requirements to partners around the world while con- a limousine careened out of control Essa Hilal al-Kuwari announced in a Siraj Power Energy participates in the facilitate investment in Qatar, initia- tributing to eff orts to bolster the role of in what investigators described press release that the corporation at- project as a strategic national investor. tives and agreements with interna- the Qatari private sector in building ef- yesterday as the most deadly tracted international companies and Under this project, competitive tional partners, as well as the Qatari fective partnerships with counterparts transportation accident in the consortiums with wide experience in power generation prices are expected market’s benefits and Public Private around the world. To Page 9 United States for nearly a decade. the development of solar plants, and Eng. Essa Hilal al-Kuwari to save natural gas used in traditional All 18 occupants of the SUV-style 16 international developers have been power generation, along with reduc- stretch limo died along with two prequalifi ed. “As a first stage, 350MW will be ing carbon emissions and preserving pedestrians on Saturday afternoon He added that the project comes in connected to the grid by 2020 in the environment. in upstate New York, police deputy implementation of the directives of achievement of the strategic objec- It is one of the objectives of the na- superintendent Christopher Fiore His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim tive set in Qatar National Develop- tional programme for conservation told a news conference. He said bin Hamad al-Thani to reduce de- ment Strategy (QNDS) 2018-2022,” and energy effi ciency “Tarsheed” for Erdogan closely the 2001 Ford Excursion had pendence on oil and gas to achieve the he said. the reduction of 7% of harmful carbon failed to stop at an intersection economic diversity, and in line with He added that a 10sq km plot of emissions in Qatar. and continued into a parking lot, the economic and environmental de- land located in west of Doha near Since it was launched by Kahramaa ultimately crashing into a parked velopment pillars of Qatar National Al-Kharsaah area has been allotted in 2012, Tarsheed managed to reduce following case of car. Page 12 Vision 2030. for the construction of the solar 10.6 tons of emissions. To Page 2 Saudi journalist QRCS joins Qatari peers to launch Gaza projects Reuters Ankara atar Red Crescent Society for conducting surveys of hearing dis- (QRCS) has joined hands with order treatment among infants from 0 urkish President Recep Tayy- Qa number of Qatari institutions to 5 years of age, estimated at 50,000 ip Erdogan said yesterday he in a fundraising campaign supervised children per year, will be made available. Twas closely following the case by the Regulatory Authority for Char- Some 100 medical professionals of missing Saudi journalist Jamal itable Activities (RACA) to mobilise will also be trained in early detection Khashoggi after Turkish offi cials said national and international support for of hearing disability and hearing aids they believed he had been killed at the Gaza. will be provided for 600 children, Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Under the theme of “Gaza Deserves apart from cochlear implants for 300 Erdogan told reporters that authori- to Live,” the drive is aimed at pushing children found to have congenital ties were examining camera footage forward the development and recon- hearing disability. The expected budg- and airport records as part of their struction of Gaza, whose 2mn popu- et amounts to QR24,375,000. investigation into the disappearance lation live in a severe calamity amid Part of QRCS’ projects include rain- last week of Khashoggi, who had been Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi blockade and closure of border cross- Off icials announcing the initiative in Doha. water collection ponds in western increasingly critical of Saudi Arabia’s ings for 10 years now. Khan Younus, which will serve 80,000 rulers. was deliberately killed inside the con- The participating organisations are QRCS’ representation mission in Gaza ment will cost QR1,470,500. population (QR2,182,700); rainwater A former newspaper editor in Saudi sulate, a view echoed by one of Erdog- QRCS, Qatar Charity, Silatech, and Edu- outlined a plan of major development Some 10 dialysis machines for the collection and purifi cation systems Arabia and adviser to its former head of an’s advisers, Yasin Aktay, who is also a cation Above All Foundation. Each or- projects totalling QR52mn in value. Al-Shifaa Hospital’s Dialysis Unit, at a (QR11,362,450) to secure irrigation intelligence, Khashoggi left the coun- friend of the Saudi journalist. ganisation will do some aspects of hu- One of the projects include multi- cost of QR1,084,500, will also be pur- and household water for 227,294 peo- try last year saying he feared retribu- “My sense is that he has been killed..