BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Qatar thrash Saudi Arabia INDEX 30-20 to top DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2-6, 24 COMMENT 22, 23 Qatar’s e-commerce REGION 7 BUSINESS 1-5, 15-20 26,057.00 9,200.10 63.37 ARAB WORLD 7, 8 CLASSIFIED 6-15 market seen reaching group +116.00 +41.33 -0.58 INTERNATIONAL 9-21 SPORTS 1-8 +0.45% +0.45% -0.91% $3.2bn by 2020 Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 SUNDAY Vol. XXXVIII No. 10705 January 21, 2018 Jumada I 4, 1439 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Qatar, US sign deal on anti-terror financing UAE paid US fi rm In brief for anti-Qatar news ARAB WORLD | Diplomacy he data fi rm whose work for mental FARA fi lings by US lobbyists from a new awareness that a failure to Sudan hails Qatar role in Donald Trump’s campaign at- and public relations fi rms since Special disclose overseas political work could Ttracted the interest of Robert Counsel Mueller charged two Trump lead to federal charges. achieving Darfur peace Mueller’s investigators has recently aides with failing to disclose their lob- In October, Mueller indicted former Governor of Khartoum State fi led paperwork showing it had helped bying work on behalf of foreign coun- Trump campaign manager Paul Man- General Abdul-Rahim Mohamed spread negative information about Qa- tries. afort and his business partner Rick Hussein yesterday expressed tar, NBC News has reported. The number of fi rst-time fi lings like Gates. They have pleaded not guilty. appreciation to Qatar’s role in Qatar was targeted by Saudi Arabia SCL Social Limited’s rose 50% to 102 Former Trump National Security Ad- achieving security and stability in and the United Arab Emirates in a bit- between 2016 and 2017, an NBC News viser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty in Darfur. Hussein highlighted Qatar’s ter propaganda battle in the run-up to analysis found. The number of sup- December to lying to the FBI. Includ- role in sponsoring and supporting their announcement of severing rela- plemental fi lings, which include details ed in his statement of off ence was the negotiations between the Sudanese tions with Doha on June 5 last year, and about campaign donations, meetings fi nding by Mueller’s team that Flynn government and armed groups, they have continued to do so ever since. and phone calls, more than doubled made materially false statements in his which eventually led to the signing The parent company of Cambridge from 618 to 1,244 last year as lobby- FARA fi lings about his work on behalf of the Doha Document for Peace in Analytica fi led documents with the US ists scrambled to avoid the same fate as of Turkey. Darfur. Speaking at a conference for Justice Department’s Foreign Agents some of Trump’s associates and their The $333,000 contract between SCL the National Liberation and Justice Registration Unit disclosing $333,000 business partners. Social Limited and the National Media Party, Hussein said that the party Qatar’s Attorney General HE Dr Ali bin Fetais al-Marri, who is currently visiting in payments by the UAE for a 2017 so- The flood of new filings provides a Council of the UAE included creat- itself was one of the outcomes of the Washington, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the US cial media campaign linking the Qa- small window into the long-opaque ing multiple ads on Facebook, Twitter, Doha document. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The MoU aims at strengthening co-operation taris to terrorism. In June, US President industry of foreign lobbying in Wash- YouTube and other social media sites between the Qatari Public Prosecution and the US Department of Justice in Trump showed support to the aggres- ington in which money is spent by with the hashtag #boycottqatar, draw- QATAR | Offi cial capacity-building, as well as co-operation in the fight against terrorism and its sive Saudi and UAE stance against Qa- foreign governments to sway the ing ties between terrorism and Qatar. financing and combating cyber crime. tar, and their decision to cut diplomatic opinions of the American public and SCL Social Limited spread the nega- Initiative to regulate ties. US officials, most often against their tive ads during the United Nations laundry services The fi ling by SCL Social Limited is adversaries. General Assembly meeting in Septem- The Ministry of Economy and one of hundreds of new and supple- The uptick, legal experts say, comes ber. Commerce has announced an initiative to regulate the services of laundries and dry-cleaning shops in Qatar. The move is in accordance Three new private with Circular No. 1/2018 and in line with the ministry’s policy to regulate Turkey opens new front in Syria war commercial activities. According to a statement issued by the ministry, hospitals to be this initiative comes to ensure that Reuters The operation, which the Turks YPG militia and that no civilians had the suppliers comply with their Hassa, Turkey/Beirut dubbed “Operation Olive Branch”, sees been hurt. obligations under Law No. 8 of 2008 Ankara confronting Kurdish fi ghters “In a situation like this our expec- on consumer protection and its built on govt land allied to the United States. tations from everyone and especially executive regulations. Page 2 urkey opened a new front in Syr- “We are carrying out this operation from our allies is that they side with us, ia’s war yesterday, launching air- from land and air,” Foreign Minister not with terrorists,” he said, appearing AMERICA | Politics he Ministry of Public Health investment in the health and medical Tstrikes against a US-backed Kurd- Mevlut Cavusoglu told broadcaster to refer to Washington. One year on, Trump leads (MoPH) has recently announced sector and it provided investors with ish militia in Afrin province that raise the NTV. Some 108 targets had been hit in air- Ta public tender for the private adequate incentives to launch such prospect of worsening relations between He said the attacks were being car- strikes, the Turkish military said. US into govt shutdown sector to build and operate three pri- projects. Ankara and Nato ally Washington. ried out to target the Syrian-Kurdish Page 7 US President Donald Trump vate hospitals on government-owned Khalid al-Emadi, Executive Direc- marked the first anniversary of his land. tor of Al Ahli Hospital, pointed out that inauguration yesterday with his The tender was issued in accordance the move constituted a real partner- government in shutdown, accusing with the decision of the Ministerial ship between both the private and the Democrats of taking Americans Group for the Encouragement and Par- public sector, as the private health sec- hostage with their demands and ticipation of the Private Sector in the tor in Qatar needed further incentives putting immigrants ahead of the Economic Development Projects. and support as was the case with other nation’s military. As the clock An offi cial source told local Arabic business fi elds to grow and expand. struck midnight, in the absence of daily Arrayah that the capital to be in- However, he called for stability in the an agreed spending plan, federal vested in these hospitals would amount required standards, pointing out that services began to come to a halt or to QR1bn. The total space of land al- frequent changes would burden inves- be scaled back. Essential services located to the three hospitals comes to tors with unnecessary extra cost, which and military activity will continue 137,904sq m with a combined capacity might have not been planned when the but many public sector workers of 310 beds. project was fi rst adopted. will be sent home without wages. The source estimated that the Dr Othman Ramadan, Director of Page 11 number of patients visiting the three Doha Clinic Hospital, praised the move hospitals, at the inpatient and outpa- but asked for more fl exibility in process- AFGHANISTAN | Unrest tient clinics together, would be around ing the necessary procedures to issue the 60,000 a year. The new healthcare fa- required licenses and documents. Gunmen attack Kabul’s cilities would considerably enhance Adbularhman al-Emadi, CEO of Al Intercontinental Hotel the quality of the health services in Emadi Hospital, asked that the private A group of as many as four gunmen the country, and it is considered a ma- health sector should be more involved attacked the Intercontinental jor step to support investment in the in the decision-making process by Hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul health sector. MoPH which would ultimately benefi t last night, seizing hostages and Meanwhile, a number of entre- the sector in the country. exchanging gunfire with security preneurs have affi rmed that allocat- Neither the locations nor the dates forces as the building caught fire ing plots of land for the project was a for the completion of the project were and residents and staff fled. proper step towards the expansion of disclosed. Hundreds of fl u cases seen at PECs daily amad Medical Corporation periencing dangerous or life-threaten- (HMC)’s fi ve Paediatric Emer- ing symptoms, such as a cardiac arrest Hgency Centres (PECs) have re- or convulsions. ported an increase in patients with cold The PECs are equipped to handle a and fl u symptoms in recent weeks, as wide range of conditions – from chron- temperatures continued to drop. ic disease to critical illness; however, Dr Mohamed al-Amri, senior con- patients with minor illnesses are asked sultant for Paediatric Emergency Med- to seek treatment at their local health icine and assistant director of the PECs, centres, with only emergency cases go- said the increase in the number of chil- ing to the PECs.