Qatar Daily News

Doha bid to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has received complete support from the leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. This was confirmed during the 32nd session of the Supreme Council for GCC.

During a communiqué issued following the 32nd session of the GCC Supreme Council, the leaders of all the six GCC member states confirmed their support to Qatar’s hosting the 2020 Olympic Games, and said that they would extend all their potential to make this important sporting event a success. Read the rest of this entry »

Qatar, the world’s fastest growing economy and biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, sold $5 billion of dollar-denominated bonds maturing in five, 10 and 30 years.

Qatar returned to international markets for the first time in two years to sell notes due in January 2017 to yield 3.18 percent, securities maturing in January 2022 at 4.63 percent and bonds due in January 2042 at 5.83 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Qatari Armed Forces General Command has announced that the marine shooting range (O.B.D-28), located 40 km east of Mesaieed, approximately at an angle of 105 from the Mesaieed Port to South of Shra’oh, will be active from 01/12/2011 to 05/12/2011 from 6:00 am to 5:00 pm according to Doha local time.

The exercise coordinates are:

A:245900N-521600E

B:250050N-521060E

C:245740N-515140E

D:245640N – 515000E

E: 244760N – 515000E

F:245250N- 521440E

G: 245380- 526100E

The Qatari Armed Forces General Command warns those who frequently visit the area to take precautions for their safety. (QNA)

The Peninsula

Australia football boss Frank Lowy suggested on Monday that Qatar could yet be stripped of its right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup following their controversial awarding of the global showpiece.

Australia was humiliated to receive only one FIFA vote and was eliminated in the first round as Qatar went on to beat the US in the fourth round in Zurich last December.

The process of awarding Qatar the World Cup over the US and Australia, along with the handing of the 2018 tournament to Russia, has been widely criticised amid allegations of corruption within world football’s governing body.

Lowy, 81, formally re-elected on Monday as Football Federation Australia chairman (FFA) for another four years, indicated that world governing body FIFA could succumb to pressure from around the world over their bidding process.

“I don’t know whether you recall when I came back from that fateful day (after losing the bid) and I said ‘this is not the last word about awarding the World Cup’,” Lowy told reporters.

“Well, it wasn’t the last word and the last word hasn’t been heard yet.

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The Qatar Football Association said on its website Sunday that the striker has signed a three-year deal with the Qatari club. The 29-year-old, who joined Gamba from city rivals Cerezo during the offseason, scored nine goals in eight games in the 2011 J-League campaign.

Adriano is the latest Brazilian to move from Japan to the Middle East. Last week, Japan’s Urawa Reds announced it had agreed to transfer Brazilian striker Edmilson to Qatari club Al Gharafa.

Tanzanian youths may secure several job opportunities in Qatar as part of the Arabic country’s preparations for the 2022 World Cup tournament. The good news was revealed yesterday by the minister for Labour and Employment, Ms Gaudencia Kabaka. She was briefing the press on her trip to Geneva where she attended the 100th annual general meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

She said at the meeting Tanzania government officials held discussions with their Qatar counterparts who showed an interest in importing a labour force from Tanzania during preparations for the tournament.

“The government of Qatar expressed an interest in getting experts from this country to fill various positions, mainly in the construction industry, after it was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup tournament,” she said.

According to her, the job openings would be in fields like teaching, administration, health, hotels, engineering and domestic work. Read the rest of this entry »

Qatar Airways has announced it has been named Official Airline of the prestigious “Tour de France”, which attracts hundreds of cyclists competing in the world’s most famous cycle race. Expected to be watched by over hundreds of millions of television viewers around the world and millions of spectators lining the 3,500km route, this year’s edition – Read the rest of this entry »

No Nepali worker is to be hired by individual employers in Qatar without the permission of the Nepalese embassy in Doha.

Under new rules, an individual employer will have to submit to the Nepali embassy a copy of the worker’s passport, a copy of the visa, an employment contract verified by the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a valid Qatari ID of the individual concerned with a processing fee of QR60 ($16.5).

The documents collected by the embassy will then be sent to the Ministry of Labour and Transport Management (MoLTM) in Nepal.
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Qatar has pledged to invest $10 billion in Egypt, a country with which it had strained relations under ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a minister was quoted as saying on Saturday.

Egypt’s, minister of planning and international cooperation, Fayza Abu al-Naga, said the Egyptian-Qatari ministerial committee met on Saturday and “discussed ways to promote Qatari investment in Egypt,” the official MENA news agency reported.
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Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) opened its 30th branch in the “Barwa-Al Wakra” village.

The branch will provide integrated banking services to both personal and business customers in the vibrating and rapidly growing “Barwa-Al Wakra” village.

The village is home to more than 900 housing units and 1200 stores, and attracts many visitors, making of it one of the hottest modern shopping spots in Qatar.