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Doha • A new rent law passed yesterday and to be brought into force from today makes all existing tenancy contracts valid until February 14, 2010. It provides for the Cabinet to issue a decision regarding the percentage of increase and the period after which a property owner can raise the rent. It implies that unless the Cabinet issues a decision, no landlord can now increase the rent by any amount. The law (Number 4 of 2008) was ratified by the Emir, H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, nullifying Law Number 2 of 1975. Article 27 of the new law specifies that unless a tenant does not want to renew a rent contract, all current contracts will be legally valid until February 14,...

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Thanks to the concern and support of one Mr. Abraham who read my story on our blog and one of the internet forums in Doha, who then later on emailed and forwarded my story to the Lulu Hypermarket Head Office in UAE. Surprisingly though, we also emailed the same story to the said office but it was only Mr. Abraham’s letter they got. Anyway, he was kind enough to send me a copy of the email from Mr. Althaf, Lulu Hypermarket’s Regional Director and upon receiving that email, I wasted no time and emailed Mr. Althaf myself.

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Below is the direct response we received from the Regional Director of Lulu. We would be setting up a meeting with him this afternoon. Hopefully, all is well that ends well and no one gets terminated. We hope Lulu Hypermarket would provide more trainings to its staff on how to handle such situation and not let it escalate to what happened with me. Read the letter below...

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This is an open letter sent to Lulu Hypermarket Management (headoffice@emkegroup.ae , xxxxxx@luluhypermarket.net.qa ) in response to their email to another reader which he forwarded us. Again, I'm not so sure why Lulu Hypermarket has responded to his email and not my complaint email to the same email address last Friday night. Nor was I, at least, sent a copy by Lulu though they were given the link to our blog where I have my email address. In any case, read below...

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Herewith is a letter from Lulu Hypermarket about the incident. One of our readers forwarded our entry to the maangement and was answered promptly. However, I was just wondering why the reader got a reply from Lulu Management and I wasn't replied to, when I sent an email to them, to the same address, to complain last Friday night? Also, we were CCied to the readers' email to the management with links to our email addresses. So why didn't they CC us nor email us directly? Read below his email.

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