Qatar Daily News

Some of the top Qatari employers are vying to recruit the best available talent in the market at the ongoing four-day Qatar Career Fair.
RasGas will be participating in the Qatar Career Fair all week as a diamond sponsor and encourages Qatari nationals to visit their stand and learn more about the many career prospects available with the company, an official said.
RasGas Employee, Development and Welfare group manager Erhama al-Kaabi said from the stand: “RasGas participation at the Qatar Career Fair will present opportunities to Qatari talent to enroll in our National Development Programme. There are many exciting careers opportunities to offer to qualified candidates in 2010.” Read the rest of this entry »

Kuwait has so far invested $1.5 billion in Turkey, according to the Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah’s official consultant in Turkey.

The Kuwaiti emir is planning to implement three or four giant projects worth $3 billion in Turkey, said Uğur Akkuş, the group leader of the Sems Turk Kuwait-Turkey investment consultancy company.

“A big portion of the $3 billion investment, which will be implemented in Turkey via Sems Turk, a Kuwait-Turkey investment consultancy company, will be in real estate. We are planning to focus on Istanbul,” Akkuş said. “The company is also interested in Turkey’s hydroelectric power plants as well as its agriculture sector.”

“Everything in the Gulf region relies on imports. Turkey has the potential to become the food storage of the Gulf region in the coming years,” said Akkuş. “Our company is also interested in the Southeastern Anatolia Project [GAP].”
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ABB, the Swiss-headquartered power and automation technology group, has signed a $2.8m contract with Qatar-based contractor, Black Cat Engineering & Construction to design and develop a major integrated Safety Integrity Level 3(SIL 3) and process control solution for a gas pipeline project in Dukhan, Qatar.
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Dubai government-owned airline Emirates said on Tuesday it planned to recruit 2,000 cabin crew in 2010 as it expands its fleet and routes.

The Arab world’s largest airline has hired around 660 cabin crew and more than 60 pilots since March 2009, a statement said. The airline’s total cabin crew stands at 11,000.
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HH the Deputy Emir and Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday released the Mus’haf Qatar, the country’s first edition of the Holy Qur’an.

The special edition, which was set in exquisite calligraphy and made into templates for large-scale printing, had been in the making for nearly two decades.

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The world’s biggest privately owned boat has arrived at the Dubai International Boat Show.

The ‘Dubai’, which is 531 feet (162 metres) and reaches speeds of up to 26 knots moored up within the Dubai International Boat Show and will stay there until March 13.

Dubai World Trade Centre CEO Helal Saeed Almarri said it was an honour and a privilege to have the boat at the show.

“We are looking forward to an outstanding five days of great business opportunities and providing luxurious entertainment as consumer confidence gains momentum,” Almarri added.
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After maintaining almost a week’s silence after announcing his change of nationality, artist M.F. Husain appeared on NDTV 24×7 on Wednesday to speak about the change. A day later, he spoke to Mint from his new homeland, Qatar. Edited excerpts from a phone interview:

When you spoke to Mint in October, you said you were desperate to return to India and end your self-imposed exile. What changed between then and now?

I realized that all this talk was coming in the way of my work. I’m 94 and not getting younger, and I want to focus on my art at this stage. I’m dedicating myself to finishing the artworks for three permanent museums in London and Qatar that are being prepared to host my works. There’s also this project on the 100 years of Indian cinema that I’m set to finish soon. I’m really looking forward to all of this. Read the rest of this entry »

Royal Dutch Shell Plc spent $19 billion, triple the original estimate, to build the world’s largest gas-to-liquids plant. Now, it’s pay-off time and the company says the project may generate $6 billion a year.

Shell needs the plant, known as Pearl, to bolster output, which fell for a seventh year in 2009 in part because rebel violence hampered oil ventures in Nigeria. Qatar, the arid Gulf state that’s become the world’s biggest exporter of gas on ships, may account for 10 percent of the company’s production after Pearl and a liquefied natural gas project start deliveries next year.
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Work has begun on Qatar’s multibillion-dollar metro and ground rail projects, set to be completed in phases until 2016, and central to the emirate’s dreams of hosting the 2022 football World Cup.

The three projects – a metro network within Greater Doha, overground railways covering Qatar, and then links to the rest of the GCC region – are expected to cost as much as $40bn.

Metro rail project will cover a total distance of 354km and the trains will run at speeds of 80 to 160km per hour.
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Dubai Aquarium, one of the emirate’s flagship tourist attractions, reopened on Saturday following a two-day closure after it sprung a leak and flooded Dubai Mall, UAE daily Gulf News reported on Sunday.

Chaos broke out Dubai Mall on Thursday when water began pouring out of one of the panel joints of the main tank, which holds some 10 million litres of water, forcing the evacuation and closure of part of the shopping centre.

On Saturday, however, the only evidence of the drama that unfolded was a lower water level in the main tank, the newspaper said, adding that both the aquarium’s main viewing panel and the walkthrough tunnel were once again open to the public.
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