Qatar News

KUWAIT CITY * Most Arab stock markets rebounded yesterday, bolstered by interest rate cuts and infusion of fresh liquidity, following this week's battering by concerns over the global financial crisis.

QATAR Airways remains on schedule to launch daily non-stop flights between Doha and New York on October 26 despite a strike at Boeing Company affecting aircraft deliveries, the national carrier said yesterday.

The State of Qatar has signed a $393.6 million contract with Lockheed Martin for the purchase of four C-130J Super Hercules airlifters plus training and spares with deliveries to begin in 2011.

The state-owned Al-Alam, Iran's official Arabic-language television station, quoted an unidentified senior Iranian military official as saying the plane belonged either to a British or Hungarian relief agency ...

DOHA * With a power crunch looming, Qatar is studying the possibility of adding up to 5,400 megawatts of nuclear capacity between 2011 and 2036, according to the 'Arabian Gulf Electricity Industry' report ...

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DOHA * Qatar participated in the 'BirdLife International's 2008 World Conservation Conference and Global Partnership Meeting' held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from September 22 to 27.

Organisations line up varied fare for Onam DOHA * Onam, the harvest festival of the southern Indian state of Kerala, which was largely overshadowed here on account of it coinciding with Ramadan, was finally ...

Instead, if oil and food prices were to revert to the 2008 peaks, which cannot be ruled out given the current gyrations in commodity prices, the situation for net oil importers would deteriorate further, it ...

Luxe sushi empire Nobu , backed by Robert De Niro, plans to open an eatery in Doha, Qatar 's capital city.

He told a Hong Kong conference: "From where we stood it was too early from a timing perspective.

UNITED NATIONS * Qatar continued championing efforts to improve the lives of autism sufferers by co-hosting an awareness-raising conference with the United Nations on the sidelines of the annual meeting of ...

DOHA: Qatargas Operating Company and Nakilat have taken delivery of "Mozah," the world's largest LNG carrier at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard on Geoje Island yesterday.

DOHA * Apart from organising 'Damascus, Arab Capital of Culture 2008', in the Syrian capital of Damascus, Qatar will take part in 'Tadmur Festival 2008'. Both events will be held from October 6 to 16.

THE grand prize winner in the Doha Bank Gold American Express Card who won a luxury private jet trip was handed over the prize on Friday.

DOHA * Qatar recorded the fastest growth in Foreign Direct Investment last year in the MENA region, which at $1.1bn was more than seven times larger than its 2006 total.

The Gas Sales Agreement to deliver an average of 200mn standard cubic feet of gas a day to Oman was signed with the Oman Oil Company in September 2005.

Koleilat with JATA chairman Akira Kanai and senior Qatar Airways executives at the Japanese trade show in Tokyo recently QATAR Airways has said it is strengthening its position in Japan with more than 80% of ...

"Persistently high corruption in low-income countries amounts to an "ongoing humanitarian disaster" "Against a backdrop of continued corporate scandal, wealthy countries backsliding too." With countries such as ...

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- A leading U.S. defense firm has been awarded a $26.1 million contract to support the American military in Qatar.