Preparations are going on in
full swing to reopen a Japanese
school in Doha in April 2009. The
school is being reopened as parts
of Qatar´s effort to enable Japanese
students pursue education in their...
FOR students to learn, they need welltrained
teachers. Unfortunately, far too
many teacher-preparation programmes in
the United States are little more than diploma
mills.As states and...
WHEN 10 young men in an
inflatable lifeboat came
ashore in Mumbai last
month and went on a
rampage with machine
guns and grenades, taking hostages,
setting fires...
Qatar's stock
market made a smart rally on Sunday
led as it was by a strong buying
support in banking scrips as the
regulator asked listed companies
to announce dividends...
Abdelbasat
Hanachi maintained the supremacy
of Doha Team in the UCI Asian
Tour Qatar International Grand
Prix by winning the 95-kilometre
second race under tough conditions
at Losail here on Sunday.
The National Indoor Arena
in England was filled to
capacity at Coldplay's
recent performance.
Tour-hardened but not
wearied, the band bounds
around charming the
crowd with their tunes
The renowned law firm Patton Boggs provided an ideal platform for two leading jurists and policy-makers of the United States to delineate the impact of recent polls on the international business community. At a special briefing organised here recently, the two lawyers – Thomas Hale Boggs Jr and Benjamin L Ginsberg — representing the two major political formations in the US provided a glimpse of the change in policies that is likely to come after the elections, especially at a time when the world is facing...
RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) played an integral role in this year’s World LNG summit in Barcelona, Spain from the 9th-13th of December, 2008. The last few days have been beneficial for RasGas representatives, and a highlight of the summit so far was a key note address by RasGas’ Operations Group Manager, Hamad Mubarak al Muhannadi. Qatar occupies the pre-eminent position as the world’s largest producer of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and RasGas is its premier integrated LNG global enterprise.
Netgear, a leading networking solutions provider, has announced that it recently secured a QR270,000 contract to implement a virtual private network (VPN) solution that will link the ‘Zakat Fund’ headquarters to its 10 branch offices all over Qatar.
Utilising its VPN firewall routers FV538 and DGFV338, Netgear will implement the VPN solution using ADSL Internet services, thereby...
As several European airlines talk about merging to create big global networks even as fuel prices ebb, the question on a lot of minds is: will merger talks in the US airline industry take off again? The answer is likely to be “yes” in an industry that clearly has excess capacity, is adding surcharges despite a retreat in gas prices, and is facing international competitors likely to consolidate significantly in the coming year. “As we are in a recession that is...
China said it plans to increase the amount of money circulating in its economy next year in a new effort to spur consumer spending and shield the country from a global downturn. Saturday’s announcement by the country’s State Council, or Cabinet, comes on the heels of a multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package announced last month that calls for injecting more government money into the economy through spending on construction and other projects. There are mounting signs that China’s economic...
Thousands of Renault workers braved heavy rain to march through the central Spanish city of Valladolid Saturday to protest a work reduction plan by the French automaker at its four plants in the country.
Renault management in Spain on December 3 proposed the 2009 cuts at its two factories in Valladolid, one in the nearby town of Palencia and another in the southern city of Sevilla.
Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee made it two straight wins in a row on the Asian Tour when he claimed a comfortable victory at the 300,000-US-dollar Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open on Sunday. Thongchai, who welcomed the arrival of his second child nine days ago, duly dedicated both victories to his newborn son Kittituch.
The Thai produced another superb round of six-under-par 66 at Phokeethra Country Club for a 24-under-par 264 total to end his Cambodian campaign six shots ahead of closest rival Lam Chih Bing of Singapore.
The red-hot Cleveland Cavaliers were looking to go where no team in franchise history had gone before, but the Atlanta Hawks had other ideas. Mike Bibby scored 24 points, including the goahead 3-pointer down the stretch, and Marvin Williams hit a pair of game-sealing free throws with 2.9 seconds left, as the Hawks denied the Cavaliers their first-ever 12- game winning streak, with a 97-92 home-court victory on Saturday night.
Jerome Taylor scored a magnificent maiden Test century on Sunday as the West Indies ensured the rain-affected first Test against New Zealand in Dunedin would almost certainly end in a draw.
Coming to the crease with the West Indies in some trouble at 173 for six, still 189 runs behind the New Zealand first innings total of 365, Taylor bludgeoned 17 fours and three sixes on his way to 106. His partnership with veteran Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who was last man out for 76, took the West Indies to a first innings total of 340.
The fantasy movie Inkheart, the first film based on the best-selling juvenile fiction series by author Cornelia Funke, was a 50th-birthday gift to its author. Los Angeles based Funke is often described as a German equivalent of JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series. She has hooked huge numbers of adult readers worldwide, along with the children and teens who relish the magic worlds of her novels. The movie release seems likely to mark a change of gear for her from being just big to going mega.
Actress Courteney Cox is keen to make a film adaptation of the hit TV series Friends, but doesn’t want to talk about it fearing people would misinterpret her statements. Cox talked about it on comedienne Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show, but she was hesitant to talk freely about the potential project because she’s unsure of what direction it could go in.
Imdb.com reports her saying: “Well, it all took place around an apartment and a coffee shop so I don’t know what would we do? We went to England once, and was that great? I’m not sure.
Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin lost his sister in a road accident. Thesun.co.uk reports that Culkin’s sister Dakota, 29, was walking along the street in Los Angeles recently when she stepped off the curb and was struck by a moving vehicle. Following the incident, she was rushed to the city’s UCLA Medical Center to be treated for her injuries, but died recently.
The incident is reportedly now being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department...
Barely a month before the 9/11 terror
attacks, two Pakistani nuclear scientists,
said to be close to disgraced
Abdul Qadeer Khan, met up with Al
Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and
offered to supply him with atomic
weapons, according to a newly
released book.
British PM Gordon Brown on Sunday
talked tough with Pakistan telling it
that three-fourth of terror attacks in
British soil had emanated from its
territory and citing the Mumbai carnage
said “time has come for action
and not words”.
The renowned law firm Patton Boggs provided an ideal platform for two leading jurists and policy-makers of the United States to delineate the impact of recent polls on the international business community. At a special briefing organised here recently, the two lawyers – Thomas Hale Boggs Jr and Benjamin L Ginsberg — representing the two major political formations in the US provided a glimpse of the change in policies that is likely to come after the elections, especially at a time when the world is facing...
RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) played an integral role in this year’s World LNG summit in Barcelona, Spain from the 9th-13th of December, 2008. The last few days have been beneficial for RasGas representatives, and a highlight of the summit so far was a key note address by RasGas’ Operations Group Manager, Hamad Mubarak al Muhannadi. Qatar occupies the pre-eminent position as the world’s largest producer of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and RasGas is its premier integrated LNG global enterprise. 
Netgear, a leading networking solutions provider, has announced that it recently secured a QR270,000 contract to implement a virtual private network (VPN) solution that will link the ‘Zakat Fund’ headquarters to its 10 branch offices all over Qatar.
Utilising its VPN firewall routers FV538 and DGFV338, Netgear will implement the VPN solution using ADSL Internet services, thereby...
As several European airlines talk about merging to create big global networks even as fuel prices ebb, the question on a lot of minds is: will merger talks in the US airline industry take off again? The answer is likely to be “yes” in an industry that clearly has excess capacity, is adding surcharges despite a retreat in gas prices, and is facing international competitors likely to consolidate significantly in the coming year. “As we are in a recession that is...
China said it plans to increase the amount of money circulating in its economy next year in a new effort to spur consumer spending and shield the country from a global downturn. Saturday’s announcement by the country’s State Council, or Cabinet, comes on the heels of a multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package announced last month that calls for injecting more government money into the economy through spending on construction and other projects. There are mounting signs that China’s economic...
Thousands of Renault workers braved heavy rain to march through the central Spanish city of Valladolid Saturday to protest a work reduction plan by the French automaker at its four plants in the country.
Renault management in Spain on December 3 proposed the 2009 cuts at its two factories in Valladolid, one in the nearby town of Palencia and another in the southern city of Sevilla.
Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee made it two straight wins in a row on the Asian Tour when he claimed a comfortable victory at the 300,000-US-dollar Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open on Sunday. Thongchai, who welcomed the arrival of his second child nine days ago, duly dedicated both victories to his newborn son Kittituch.
The Thai produced another superb round of six-under-par 66 at Phokeethra Country Club for a 24-under-par 264 total to end his Cambodian campaign six shots ahead of closest rival Lam Chih Bing of Singapore. 
The red-hot Cleveland Cavaliers were looking to go where no team in franchise history had gone before, but the Atlanta Hawks had other ideas. Mike Bibby scored 24 points, including the goahead 3-pointer down the stretch, and Marvin Williams hit a pair of game-sealing free throws with 2.9 seconds left, as the Hawks denied the Cavaliers their first-ever 12- game winning streak, with a 97-92 home-court victory on Saturday night.
Jerome Taylor scored a magnificent maiden Test century on Sunday as the West Indies ensured the rain-affected first Test against New Zealand in Dunedin would almost certainly end in a draw.
Coming to the crease with the West Indies in some trouble at 173 for six, still 189 runs behind the New Zealand first innings total of 365, Taylor bludgeoned 17 fours and three sixes on his way to 106. His partnership with veteran Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who was last man out for 76, took the West Indies to a first innings total of 340.
The fantasy movie Inkheart, the first film based on the best-selling juvenile fiction series by author Cornelia Funke, was a 50th-birthday gift to its author. Los Angeles based Funke is often described as a German equivalent of JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series. She has hooked huge numbers of adult readers worldwide, along with the children and teens who relish the magic worlds of her novels. The movie release seems likely to mark a change of gear for her from being just big to going mega.
Actress Courteney Cox is keen to make a film adaptation of the hit TV series Friends, but doesn’t want to talk about it fearing people would misinterpret her statements. Cox talked about it on comedienne Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show, but she was hesitant to talk freely about the potential project because she’s unsure of what direction it could go in.
Imdb.com reports her saying: “Well, it all took place around an apartment and a coffee shop so I don’t know what would we do? We went to England once, and was that great? I’m not sure. 
Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin lost his sister in a road accident. Thesun.co.uk reports that Culkin’s sister Dakota, 29, was walking along the street in Los Angeles recently when she stepped off the curb and was struck by a moving vehicle. Following the incident, she was rushed to the city’s UCLA Medical Center to be treated for her injuries, but died recently.
The incident is reportedly now being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department...
Barely a month before the 9/11 terror
attacks, two Pakistani nuclear scientists,
said to be close to disgraced
Abdul Qadeer Khan, met up with Al
Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and
offered to supply him with atomic
weapons, according to a newly
released book. 
British PM Gordon Brown on Sunday
talked tough with Pakistan telling it
that three-fourth of terror attacks in
British soil had emanated from its
territory and citing the Mumbai carnage
said “time has come for action
and not words”.
