ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Industries Activities to Qatar H1 profit start new hits QR2.8bn football season Business | 17 Sport | 28 Monday 11 August 2014 • 15 Shawwal 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6154 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Rentals likely to SEC releases go up 10 percent annually until 2022 DOHA: Given Qatar’s fast- growing land value and rising list of 15 construction costs, rentals in the country is expected to grow at an average 10 percent per year until 2022. Rents of commercial space and residential units are expected to new schools witness a phenomenal growth in the coming few months. Rentals, which saw a slight pull Parents urged to check ‘approval’ back ahead of the summer vaca- tion, are expected to recover in DOHA: The Supreme Education on what the SEC has announced the coming months. Council is urging parents who through the media and on its web- The market dynamics in wish to enrol their children to site to ensure the schools where Qatar’s real estate sector is fast new schools to make sure the they are enrolling their chil- changing. Rents are not anymore schools have been licenced by dren are on the list, taking into fixed solely on the demand-supply the SEC to operate this coming account the fact that some exist- gap, but increasingly on the basis academic year. ing schools have new branches of land value and construction The SEC yesterday released the which should secure appropriate Firefighters try to extinguish a blaze witnesses said was caused by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City yesterday. costs, say market experts. list of new private schools which licence to be able to accept stu- Israel has agreed a new 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egyptian mediators and will send negotiators to Cairo Land value has gone up have been granted licence to oper- dents for the coming academic today if the truce holds. manifolds in the recent past. ate for academic year 2014-2015. year, added Al Khater. Construction costs have also The list includes 15 new schools She said the SEC had approved increased by 20 to 30 percent over and seven new branches of exist- the opening of new schools in the past one year. ing schools in different parts of different parts of the country as Qatar’s ‘door open to Gaza peace’ Rents of brand new residen- the country. well as new branches of existing tial and commercial units have Of the 15 new schools, six are schools to increase the capacity of WASHINGTON: The Foreign Gaza are desperate.” everywhere need a comprehensive already gone up by 25 percent to Qatari, four Indian, one Finnish, these schools in response to the Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Dr Al Attiyah, who previously agreement that will end the occu- 50 percent in some most sought- two British and two American. increasing demand. Mohamed Al Attiyah has said served as president of National pation and establish two states for after locations, due to the hike in The seven newly-licensed Parents should not register that Israel’s month-long assault Human Rights Committee, said, two peoples, allowing Israelis and land value and construction costs. branches, on the other hand, com- their children in schools which on the Palestinians has taken “As an individual who has fought Palestinians to live side by side in A latest market intelligence prise one French, one Syrian, one have not yet finished the process a heavy toll, with some 2,000 tirelessly for human rights, I peace and security.” report has ranked Qatar first American, two British and two of licensing, Al Khater said. Palestinians killed and 10,000 cannot ignore their plight, and Until a two-state solution in terms of cost of living in the Indian schools. She said the concerned com- wounded. Most victims were as a fellow Arab, I cannot ignore becomes a reality, the fighting and region. It noted that housing Fawzia Al Khater, Director, mittees at the SEC hold meetings civilians and many of them chil- this wanton denial of Palestinian bloodshed will almost certainly expense was the main driver of Education Institute, the SEC, every week to review and follow- dren, representing the latest rights. continue, he said, adding that as Qatar’s high cost of living. stressed that parents have the up new applications. bloody chapter in a tragic history. “The people of Gaza need three Qatar has said many times, peace Khalifa Al Muslimani, a real right to ask the managers of these Of the 15 new schools, four are In an article published on the things. First, they need a peace must be achieved through nego- estate expert, said rentals had they have been approved by the in Muwaither, including one in CNN titled ‘Qatar’s Door Open to agreement that ends the hostili- tiations, with all sides in the con- gone up by 15 percent during SEC to open and receive students North Muaither while two schools Peace in Gaza’ Dr Al Attiyah said: ties and lifts an Israeli siege that flict represented. the first half of 2014 from a year for the academic year. are in Al Wakra. “During the long decades of the has been in place since 2007 and “Qatar has already provided ago and have further increased The SEC said it would publish New Doha, Ferij Sudan, Al Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the has turned Gaza into what some humanitarian assistance to the by 5 percent during the past two on its website the names of the Laqfa, Labib, Al Aziziyah, Al international community has not journalists have called “an open- people of Gaza and we have months. newly-licensed schools and con- Nassr, Al Mamura, Mesaimer and fully met or addressed legitimate air jail. pledged to assist with rebuilding High construction costs and tinue updating the list with the Ain Khalid have one school each. Palestinian aspirations. “Second, the Palestinians in efforts once hostilities have ended. growing land value are the two names of new schools as soon as The new list of schools include “Nowhere is that better illus- Gaza need humanitarian aid and “But we are also working major reasons for the uptrend they have finished the licensing six national schools, four Indian trated than in Gaza. Chronically funding for development, so they behind the scenes to facilitate the in the rentals market. In certain procedures. schools, two British schools, two short of food, water and electric- can rebuild their shattered lives, kind of dialogue that can lead to areas, land prices have gone up to Parents may check this list for American schools and one Finnish ity, and cut off from the outside their bombed-out neighbourhoods a lasting peace.” QNA 70 percent, he said. their reference. school. THE PENINSULA world by closed borders and and their fractured communities. Continued on page 3 THE PENINSULA Parents should also follow up Lists on page 4 blockades, the Palestinians in “And finally, Palestinians See also page 5 Continued on page 4 Iraq parliament Two Al Wakra erring restaurants shut DOHA: Al Wakra Municipality has shut two restaurants for violat- adjourned; US ing health and safety rules, the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning said in a statement yesterday. Inspectors found food items presses strikes not fit for human consumption in both outlets. The ministry urged the people to report any violations of health, safety rules and work- BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parlia- ers’ practices to help provide a safe access to food for everyone. ment yesterday adjourned until August 19 with lawmakers Saudi jails 4 for seeking to fight in Syria unable to agree on a nominee for the post of prime minister RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Specialised Criminal Court has sentenced despite-growing international four men to prison for travelling abroad to fight in Syria’s civil pressure, several MPs said. war, the state media reported yesterday. King Abdullah decreed US President Barack Obama, in February that citizens involved in fighting overseas faced up to UN chief Ban Ki-moon and vis- 20 years in prison, to prevent the radicalisation of young people. iting French Foreign Minister “The accused were proven to have ... quit their obedience to the Laurent Fabius have, over the ruler by travelling abroad to fight,” the official Saudi Press Agency past two days, stressed that Iraq said. They were sentenced to terms ranging between four months needed a new and united govern- and two years and 10 months, it said, adding their crimes included ment to lead the fight against forgery of travel documents and money laundering. See also page 6 jihadists who control large parts of the country. Erdogan wins Turkey’s presidential poll Many blame the crisis on Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki, 64, Rescue personnel inspecting the scene of the plane crash near Mehrabad airport in Tehran yesterday. ANKARA: Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured his place in history as whose policies critics say margin- Turkey’s first directly elected President yesterday, sweeping more alised Sunni Arabs, pushing them than half the vote in a result his opponents fear heralds an increas- into the arms of jihadists. ingly authoritarian state. Supporters honking car horns and waving Meanwhile, the US conducted At least 39 die in Iran plane crash flags took to the streets in capital Ankara after Turkish TV sta- a new round of air strikes against tions said Erdogan, the prime minister for more than a decade, had Islamic State militants in the DUBAI: At least 39 people regained consciousness.