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Qatar to vote on family-only days at major shopping malls
Published Wed, Nov 25, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Doha
QATAR's only directly elected body is to vote on introducing family-only days at major shopping malls in a move dubbed a "bachelor ban" that is likely to restrict access for foreign labourers.
What sounds like an innocuous idea is proving highly contentious and threatens once more to expose the 2022 football World Cup host's fraught relationship with its vast foreign workforce.
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