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Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art won the “Best Emerging Cul- ture Destination” in the Middle East at the 2015 Leading Cul- ture Destinations Awards held in London this month. Dubbed as “The Oscars for Museums”, the prestigious awards scheme honours the world’s most visionary arts in- stitutions and emerging cultural hotspots. Leading Culture Destination […]
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Football’s ruling body FIFA yesterday confirmed the dates for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar while a news conference with its president Joseph Blatter was cancelled on short notice. The news conference, to be the first in two months for the outgoing Blatter, was cancelled five minutes before its planned start. Instead FIFA issued a statement on […]
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Msheireb Properties, a subsidiary of Qatar Foundation, has awarded Qatar-based Traffic Tech (Gulf) the contract for a “car parking management system” for the Msheireb Downtown Doha (MDD) project. The deal, signed by Msheireb Properties CEO Abdulla Hassan al-Mehshadi and Traffic Tech CEO Husam Musharbash, is seen as an “important operational milestone,” comprising the integration and future management of […]
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Qatar today officially launches one of its most “significant” labour reforms to guarantee migrant workers’ wages. The Wage Protection System (WPS) aims to ensure that migrant labourers, many working on 2022 World Cup-related projects, receive their pay on time. Under the new system, workers will be paid either twice a month or monthly, and the […]
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Siemens has won two contracts from Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) for the turnkey construction of three substations in Qatar and for the supply of air-insulated switchgears. The company will supply three 132/11kV substations as part of Phase II of the Qatar Power Transmission System expansion project, which has been devised to meet the […]
Read MoreThe Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Molsa) is set to launch a comprehensive campaign to ensure the compliance of companies with stipulations of the labour law, local Arabic daily Al Sharq has reported. The search campaign will focus on compliance with the revised working hours for summer – until August 31 – at outdoor […]
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Doha College secondary art students had the privilege of discussing their work with Qatar Museums’ chairperson HE Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who is also an alumna of Doha College, at a special viewing at the Al Waab campus on Tuesday. The work is part of the Doha College annual Art Exhibition […]
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Earlier this year, at the season-opening MotoGP round in Qatar, Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) president Nasser Khalifa al-Attiyah had assured that the motorcycle road racing series will remain at the Losail International Circuit even after the current contract runs out in 2016. “I guarantee you that I will grab him (for contract extension),” […]
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The Doha Metro marked a major milestone at 9.08am on Thursday when Al Mayeda Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), one of the 21 such units assigned for the project, made a historic “breakthrough” at the main interchange station at Msheireb. “Al Mayeda, belonging to the Doha Metro Red Line, was launched at Al Khasa station at […]
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Qatar’s economy is expected to register a real growth of 7.3 percent in 2015, driven by gathering expansion of the non-hydrocarbon sector of the economy and a boost from the start-up of the Barzan gas project, according to a report released by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics on Tuesday. The “Qatar Economic Outlook […]
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