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As mentioned in our previous news for the pakistan flood, the donations are very weak for the Pakistani muslim brothers. Aspecially in this holy month of Ramadan, Pakistani victims expect a record donation from the Muslim-Arab World. But the reports says that the humanity within the muslim world is getting weaker. Please help Pakistan.

We couldn’t find the answer of question: Where are All the Sheikhs with their “Huge” Property?

Your Helping Hand Reaches To People In Pakistan:

Turkish Red Crescent
http://www.kizilay.org.tr/english/sayfa.php?t=-Donate

UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee
https://www.donate.bt.com/dec_form_pfa.html

IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation
http://www.ihh.org.tr/anasayfa/en/

A senior United Nations official has called on the global community to urgently step up its response to the floods that have struck Pakistan.

Louis-George Arsenault, director of emergency operations for Unicef in New York, described the lack of support as “quite extraordinary”.

The humanitarian crisis was the largest “in decades”, he warned.

Mr Arsenault spoke as the International Monetary Fund was due to start talks with Pakistani officials in Washington.

The talks on Monday will allow the IMF to assess how best to give help. It says the floods that have struck Pakistan pose a “massive economic challenge” and it will review the country’s budget and financial prospects.

Experts warn of a second wave of deaths from water-borne diseases such as cholera unless flood victims have access to supplies of fresh drinking water.

Your Helping Hand Reaches To People In Need:

Turkish Red Crescent
http://www.kizilay.org.tr/english/sayfa.php?t=-Donate

UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee
https://www.donate.bt.com/dec_form_pfa.html

IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation
http://www.ihh.org.tr/anasayfa/en/

An official looking at aid materials on board an aircraft that left Doha for Pakistan. A Lekhwaya Search and Rescue team was on the flight. The aircraft carried tons of food, medical and relief materials to be distributed among the displaced people in the flood-stricken country.
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Turkish State Minister Selma Aliye Kavaf held a series of talks in Qatar on Saturday.

Minister Kavaf, who is currently in Qatari capital Doha as the formal guest of Amir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, met with the country’s Minister of Culture & Heritage Hamad bin Abd al-Aziz Al-Kawari.

During the meeting, Kavaf said that Istanbul, which got the 2010 European Capital of Culture title, and Doha, which was chosen the 2010 Arab Capital of Culture, would give messages of peace and dialogue to the world this year.
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Qatar has become part of the international campaign to rush relief aid to Haiti, which is reeling from a devastating earthquake that struck the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday.

Qatar sent a strategic transport aircraft (C-17) to Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, loaded with 50tonnes of urgent relief materials to those affected in the quake-hit country

The Qatari Institution for Child and Woman Protection is tasked with the role of providing effective protection to women and children. An interview with Farida Al-Obaidly, General Director of the organisation.

What are the major objectives of the Qatari Institution for Child and Woman Protection?

The institution aims at the follwoing:

1 Assistance in the provision of accommodation for target groups and to provide integrated care for them.

2 Shielding target groups from corrupt practices in the family and society.
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The population of Qatar till Monday is 1,580,050, according to statistics released by Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) yesterday. These data represent the number of individuals of all ages (Qataris and non-Qataris) within the state on Monday, excluding Qataris and residents who were outside the borders of the State at the time of the statement monitoring. The total number of males according to these data, is 1, 225,487 compared to 354,563 females.

These figures indicate a decline in population within the state with 86,803 people compared to last October, which recorded the highest rise in population during the year. It is noteworthy that QSA started presenting data on its website showing total population at the end of each month since October last year.

As the number of women in the Qatar workforce increases, it is important for employers as well as female employees to understand the laws relating to maternity leave and entitlements (together referred to here as “maternity entitlements”).

In Qatar, minimum maternity entitlements are primarily set out in two different laws – the Labour Law (Law No. (14) of 2004) (“Labour Law”) and the Qatar Financial Centre Employment Regulations (“QFC Law”).
Set out below are brief answers to some of the most common questions that arise in relation to maternity entitlements.

1. Who is entitled to maternity entitlements?

Under the QFC Law, female employees working for any QFC body will be entitled to maternity entitlements. This will include the QFC Authority, the QFC Regulatory Authority and other QFC institutions as well as private companies, branches or partnerships established in or licensed to do business in the QFC.

The only exceptions to this basic rule may be where a female employee is regarded as a consultant or agent, or as a temporary employee (where the employment period is less than three months in a consecutive 12 month period).
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December 17, 2009, will be the official holiday to mark the assumption of power by Sheikh Jassim bin Mohamed al-Thani, instead of December 18 since it is a weekend. This came in a circular issued yesterday by HE the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Nasser bin Mohamed bin Abdul Aziz al-Thani.

The number of internet users in Qatar is expected to cross 351,000 by the end of 2009, according to recent industry reports. This spur the growth of business opportunities across the country’s IT spectrum.

In line with this, NETGEAR, a leading networking solutions provider, has launched its new series of versatile wireless routers, which have been designed to meet the varying needs of Qatar clients.

“With the significant growth in number of users in Qatar, it has become all the more pertinent to introduce high quality and user friendly networking products,” said Ahmad Zeidan, Channel Sales Manager, NETGEAR Middle East.

“We recognise the importance of having a fast and reliable internet connection for users who utilise the worldwide web for business as well as for shopping and leisure, and this has prompted us to launch our new family of dependable wireless routers to support the demand within Qatar.”
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