ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 12 June 2013 3 Shaaban 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5728 Price: QR2 Opec sees room India qualify for its over-target for Champions oil output Trophy semis Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Sash of Merit for outgoing UK envoy Qatar tops in SEC to make density of millionaires DOHA: Qatar has the world’s KG education highest density of millionaires. According to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), more than 14 percent of households in the country hold at least $1m in private compulsory wealth. Globally, only 0.9 per- cent of households had assets Admission age put at three years of at least $1m, The Huffington Post reported yesterday citing DOHA: The Supreme Education for entry into schools. Pre-school the BCG’s Global Wealth 2013 Council (SEC) is planning to education is fast gaining popular- report. “Nowhere on earth will make pre-school (kindergarten) ity among Qatari and expatriate you find as many millionaires and secondary education man- populations, with establishment concentrated in a place as in datory for all Qatari children. of several state-funded and pri- Qatar”, the news portal said. Once early education has been vate kindergartens across the THE PENINSULA made compulsory, parents will be country. The KG system in Qatar required to enrol their children in is based on a two-year curriculum GCC to act against kindergartens at the age of three. with much emphasis on outdoor Primary education in Qatar starts activities. Hezbollah members at the age of five. The SEC said it had made it The SEC set up the first mandatory for all kindergartens RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation kindergartens as part of the to have an attached playground, C o u n c i l s a i d i t w i l l t a k e m e a s u r e s Independent school system dur- besides having outdoor activity against members of Lebanon’s ing the 2008-2009 academic year. rooms. Such facilities should also Hezbollah over the movement’s Currently, there are 58 KGs meet safety and health standards. The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani presenting the Sash of Merit to outgoing British Ambassador, military intervention against associated with Independent Of the 58 kindergartens associ- Michael O’Neil, at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. Syrian rebels. The measures will schools and another 10 KGs ated with Independent schools, affect their “residency permits, have been planned in the next 49 have separate buildings. Each and financial and commercial academic year, which begins in accommodates 150 to 300 chil- transactions,” said a GCC state- September, SEC said in a state- dren, with three subjects — sci- ment issued late on Monday. The ment yesterday. ence, arts and language. English Ashghal signs QR7.2bn road contracts statement urged the Lebanese Primary education is manda- language is part of the curriculum. government to “assume its tory in Qatar and now the author- The facilities in a kindergar- DOHA: The Public Works construction contracts. The con- lines across the country.” responsibilities towards the ities are laying more emphasis on ten include classroom, library, Authority (Ashghal) yesterday struction contracts are worth The programme will deliver behaviour of Hezbollah and its early education as well as second- music room and two activity announced awarding contracts QR3.9bn, while the remaining over 900km of new roads and an illegal and inhumane practices ary education. “Early education is rooms — indoor and outdoor and worth QR7.2bn (about $2bn) to contracts for design, consultancy array of underpasses, flyovers and in Syria and the region.” AFP based on the concept of learning a playground. Computers, story build 24 expressways across the and supervision services are val- multi-level interchanges to enable through play. Psychologists have books and CDs are an integral country. ued at QR3.3bn,” said Nasser free-flowing traffic and shortened Today’s edition of found that this is highly impor- part of the learning process, the The contracts are part of Ali Al Mawlawi, President of journey times. The Peninsula includes tant for the development of chil- SEC said. Ashghal’s main road projects, Ashghal. Although Ashghal has set a tar- supplement on dren, especially their language The SEC last year unified the which will be connected with Al Mawlawi, while speaking get for all its big ticket projects to skills. Once they become fluent resource books for all kindergar- the main streets inside and out- with The Peninsula on the side- be completed by the end of 2018, in their first language, it will be tens associated with Independent side Doha. Once completed, the lines of the signing ceremony, the deadline for the above projects easy for them to learn other lan- schools. All KG and preparatory projects are expected to help ease said: “Ashghal has plans to invest has been fixed for the first quarter guages,” said the statement. (KG2) teachers have been under- traffic congestion. about QR100bn over the next 10 of 2016. SEC added that early educa- going training. “Today, we have signed 10 years in building a network of THE PENINSULA tion will better prepare children THE PENINSULA contracts including two big well-connected roads and sewer Continued on page 6 WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Qatar to take part in Unesco meeting The Peninsula publishes style guide DOHA: Qatar will take part in a three- the conference, said the conference comes day international conference on intan- within the framework of cultural events DOHA: The Peninsula has published its Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al gible cultural heritage, which is due to which had been organised by Unesco, in style guide, becoming the first English Thani is addressed as His Highness while the open in China’s Chengdu city on Friday. cooperation with the member states sig- daily in the region to transform its style ruler of Bahrain takes the title ‘His Majesty’. The event is held by the United Nations natories to the convention on intangible sheet into a book. “We believe that style is not only about lan- Educational, Scientific, and Cultural cultural heritage in 2003. The guide was prepared by the edito- guage, but also social and cultural correct- Organisation (Unesco), in cooperation He said Qatar has participated in this rial staff and contains the standards in the ness,” says the introduction of The Peninsula with the Ministry of Culture of China. celebration and had organised a workshop English language, design, style and format Style. Hamad Hamdan Al Muhannadi, the under the title “Challenges of capacity followed by the newspaper. Copies of the 141-page guide have been dis- Director of Heritage administration at the building in the field of intangible cultural “This guide will be useful to journalism stu- tributed among journalism students at Qatar Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, heritage in the Arab countries” in January dents and media professionals working in this University and other students and journalists who is also head of the Qatari delegation to last year. QNA region. For example, you will learn that the in the country. THE PENINSULA Call to boost women’s rights US-Islamic World Forum urges promoting economies of Egypt, Tunisia DOHA: The 10th US-Islamic World Forum concluded here at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel with a declaration of a set of recommendations calling for enhancement of freedom of expression, freedom of religion, social change and prevention from economic collapse. The Forum also called for promoting the overall growth in Egypt and Tunisia as well as enhancing the rights of women in Islamic countries that suffer conflict in addition to common interests and to participate in a dynamic world. It also called for religious tolerance and encouraging gov- ernments to conduct reforms in a transparent manner and involve the public in decisions A discussion at the closing session of the US-Islamic World Forum at the Ritz-Carlton in Doha yesterday. making to achieve development, justice and the establishment of a strong economy and the fight women’s participation in politi- principle of the two countries. continuation of previous efforts against corruption and the cal affairs and economic activi- Tamara Cofman, Director with regard to the relation- involvement of women in eco- ties for the desired economic of the US Saban Center for ship between the US and the nomic activities in the medium change according to the context Middle East Policy at Brookings Muslim world and to comple- term. The recommendations of each country. Institution commended the sub- ment similar work comes in the also included the need to provide The Forum also stressed the stantial support provided by future. She expressed hope that greater assistance to countries importance of working to find Qatar for this Forum since its all would cooperate to achieve in transition period through common interests in this ever- inception, saying “without the the desired interest. increasing coordination and changing world as well as pro- support of the Emir H H Sheikh She announced that the partnerships and the exchange moting religious and diplomatic Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, next Forum will be held in of knowledge and expertise . coordination in support of peace and his wise vision the Forum Washington, DC, and hoped The Forum also recom- and stability and the values of would not have achieved the suc- that it would be an opportunity mended enactment of laws human rights. It also called for cesses that it has reached.” for further constructive discus- and cultural norms and adopt supporting the peace process in She said in her speech at the sions that benefit the US and approaches that encourage the Middle East to achieve the closing session: “The Forum is a the Islamic world.