ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 15 January 2014 14 Rabial I 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5945 Price: QR2 Al Sada urges McIlroy and safety of oil, Mickelson gas industry confident Business | 20 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 FM appoints New Medical assistant minister DOHA: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah, has appointed H E Sheikh Mohamed Commission bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani as Assistant Minister for International Cooperation Affairs. at Ras Laffan QNA Separate section for food handlers Press briefing on DOHA: The Medical expected to reduce the rush at Commission will set up a major the existing units. Also, more units new airport new branch in Ras Laffan City will give options for newcomers to DOHA: The opening schedule of in collaboration with Qatar the country to select and go to the Hamad International Airport is Petroleum by the end of this nearest place,” said Al Shaar. likely to be announced today at year to conduct the manda- He said employers, not the a news briefing at its premises. tory health checks for newly Medical Commission, are respon- Details about the completion of recruited workers, a senior offi- sible for delays in screening of the airport complex and related cial said yesterday. newly recruited workers. issues are likely to be outlined This unit, along with another “Some companies are regis- at the briefing. Media persons branch to be set up in Mesaimeer tering their workers online for will be taken on a tour of the by the year end, will cater to sin- appointments after four months airport on the sidelines of the gle workers. The Ras Laffan unit of their arrival in the country and Egyptian women flash the ‘V for victory’ sign as they wait outside a polling station to vote on the first day of voting briefing. The new airport com- will have a capacity to screen 1,000 they themselves are complaining on a new constitution, in the Abassyia neighbourhood of Cairo, yesterday. plex has 180 buildings. people daily. of delays in the appointment sys- An additional facility is get- tem,” said Al Shaar, adding that 13,000 liquor ting ready next to the Medical no appointment takes more than Commission’s headquarters in three weeks. bottles seized Abu Hamour to conduct annual “We are now working to reduce Egypt votes on new constitution health screening of “food han- the waiting time to less than two DOHA: The Customs Depart- dlers” as well as those working weeks,” he added. CAIRO: Egyptians queued to opened, without causing any casu- turnout in favour of the consti- ment s ei z e d mor e t h a n 13,0 0 0 l iq- in barber shops, beauty salons He urged company representa- vote amid tight security yester- alties, as hundreds of thousands tution will bolster its disputed uor bottles in the second quarter and massage parlours. It is also tives to stay with workers who day in a referendum on a new of soldiers and police deployed to authority, while Sisi will monitor it (April to June) of 2013, besides expected to be ready by the end have problems in communicat- constitution likely to launch a guard polling stations. for an “indicator” of his popularity, making hauls of some quantities of this year. ing with the Medical Commission presidential bid by the army Three people were killed in the an official close to the general said. of narcotics like hashish, heroin, Four health centres and three staff. chief who overthrew Islamist town of Kerdasa, south of Cairo, Interim president Adly cocaine and marijuana as well as full-fledged hospitals exclu- The section for “food handlers” president Mohammed Mursi. and five died in central and south- Mansour called for a big turnout. narcotic pills, Al Sharq reports. sively meant for single workers, that will screen those working in Polling at most stations went ern Egypt when protesters clashed “The people must prove to dark These details were provided as which are expected to be opera- hotels, cafeterias, salons, beauty smoothly, but eight people were with police and civilian opponents. terrorism that they fear nothing,” part of the department’s infor- tional by 2016, will also have parlours and massage centres will killed in clashes outside Cairo Before the voting ended, at he said after casting his vote. mation exchange programme Medical Commission units, the handle around 500 visitors daily. between Mursi supporters and least 140 people, including some “The voting is not only for with its GCC peers. Commission’s director, Dr Ibrahim “People working as food han- police and anti-Mursi groups, Brotherhood members, had been the constitution, but also for the Al Shaar, said at a press confer- dlers and at salons and massage security officials said. arrested for disrupting the poll- road map, so the country can Erdogan ready to ence yesterday. centres need to undergo annual The violence highlighted the ing in some areas, security offi- have an elected president and a The new Medical Commission health screening. They also need government’s precarious grip on cials said. parliament.” withdraw bill units at Mesaimeer, Ras Laffan more specific health tests, like for the most populous Arab nation, Defence minister Abdel Fattah Mansour’s government has Industrial City and at the health dermatology and general health, as still reeling from Mursi’s ouster Al Sisi, the general who overthrew pledged the referendum will be ANKARA: Turkish Prime centres for single workers will be they come in direct contact with and a crackdown on his supporters. Mursi, visited a polling station at followed by parliamentary and Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan operated by Qatar Red Crescent, people and food,” said Al Shaar. An Islamist coalition led by a Cairo school to inspect security presidential elections. said yesterday he was ready according to an agreement signed The Medical Commission’s the former president’s Muslim preparations yesterday. It is unclear how many to withdraw a contentious bill with the Supreme Council of headquarters, which operates Brotherhood had urged protests “Work hard. We need the refer- Egyptians will turn out to vote, aimed at curbing the powers Health. with 420 staff from 7am to 8pm, and a boycott of the two-day vote, endum to be completely secured,” but the constitution appears cer- of the judiciary as he battled to “The number of people coming receives around 3,000 people daily. which ends today. he told soldiers guarding the tain to pass. contain a political crisis. to Qatar is increasing; the new Continued on page 4 A small bomb exploded outside school. See also page 7 See also page 6 Medical Commission units are THE PENINSULA a Cairo court shortly before polls The government hopes a large AFP THE PENINSULA & AFP Attiyah wins Dakar Rally stage 8 Saudi stops SMS US slams Israeli defence to guardians when women travel minister’s attack on Kerry RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has sus- JERUSALEM: Israel’s defence A State Department official pended a programme that noti- minister accused US Secretary said Washington expected Prime fies the male guardians of female of State John Kerry of an Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to relatives, who may travel abroad “incomprehensible obsession” disavow his minister’s comments. only with their permission, once with Middle East peace, draw- Israel’s top-selling newspaper the women leave the country, it ing a furious response from Yediot Aharonot quoted Yaalon was reported yesterday. the Jewish state’s chief ally as expressing hope that Kerry Since November 2012, Saudi yesterday. would end his peace push and women’s male guardians have The White House described focus his energies elsewhere. been sent a text message inform- Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon’s “The American plan for security ing them when women under reported comments as “offensive,” arrangements that was shown to their custody leave, even if they in a mark of the degree of out- us isn’t worth the paper it was are travelling together. rage in Washington at the latest written on,” Yaalon was quoted The programme, which was public spat between the two allies, as saying in private conversations strongly criticised by women Mini driver Nasser Al Attiyah of Qatar competes during Stage 9 of the Dakar Rally 2014 between Calama and which follows a major row over with Israeli officials. rights activists, “has been sus- Iquique, Chile, yesterday. Al Attiyah earlier won the eighth stage ahead of 11-time winner Stephane Peterhansel. Iran policy. AFP pended due to some observations,” See also page 28 passports department spokesman Ahmad Al Laheedan was quoted by Arab News as saying. “It will undergo amendment,” he said, indicating that the system that compounded constraints on Toxic chemicals in top brands of children’s clothing women in the ultra-conservative kingdom, could return as optional. HAMBURG: Leading environment Testing had been carried out as part of unborn children, Greenpeace added. impact the human reproductive, hormonal Men would only receive an SMS group Greenpeace said yesterday that it Greenpeace’s Detox campaign and on prod- “These chemicals can be found and immune systems when released into if they requested to be informed. had found a variety of toxic chemicals in ucts sold by Adidas, Burberry, Disney, GAP, in everything from exclusive luxury the environment. As it is, women must show children’s clothing made by major global Primark and Nike among others. designs to budget fashion,” Greenpeace Under its Detox campaign, Greenpeace immigration authorities a “yel- fashion brands. Every brand tested was found to have chemicals expert Manfred Santen has forged an alliance of 18 fashion brands, low paper” signed by their father, The chemicals don’t pose a direct health products containing hazardous chemicals told a news conference in Hamburg.