Given the current circumstances,
we wonder
how those HR minimalists
are feeling now. If their
companies are in crisis
- or their own careers
- perhaps they´ve at
last seen the light.
Q: What is the role of human
resources departments as
the world goes through turmoil.
TUCKED into the big
spending bill just
signed by President
Obama is a welcome
provision designed to
make affordable birth
control available to millions
of women across
the country.
The provision is not a
subsidy and will impose
no burden on taxpayers.
FORGET road rage. A new study
out of Germany has uncovered
evidence that getting stuck in
traffic prompts an even more
serious and immediate consequence
- a much higher risk for suffering a
heart attack.
The finding does not isolate which
particular virtue of road congestion.
The four-day
exhibition of the art pieces to
be auctioned by the Sotheby's
on March 18 and 19 opened at Ritz
Carlton here on Saturday. The
fabled pearl carpet of Baroda
made of pearls and jewels in the
19th century India.
'Rescue Police-Al
Fazaa' will be active on Qatar's
roads from Sunday, the Ministry
of Interior announced here on
Saturday. The objectives of the
'Al Fazaa' patrols are to provide
security and stability and extend
support.
OPEC will
push members to comply with production
cuts agreed last year when they
meet tomorrow in Vienna to confront
sagging demand for oil, ministers
said. "We will have to evaluate
the data and then we will make
a decision."
Newcomer Ben Spies clean swept everything that was at stake in Losail, Qatar. The American rookie, having earlier won the second pole in a row, zoomed away with a memorable double, capping a perfect week for his team Yamaha World Superbike.
Kelly Clarkson
can't stop saying she's sorry.
Having shown up 10 minutes late
for a morning interview - she
had trouble dozing off the night
before, then overslept, she explains
- the normally punctual singer
spends much of the next 10 minutes.
Qatar Telecom (Qtel) unveiled its new Qtel Service Centre at Landmark Mall, in an opening ceremony attended by leading community representatives and a delegation of Qtel executives on Saturday. The service centre at Landmark is the 16th Qtel outlet in Qatar and is one of the first of its kind to offer a broad range of consumer landline, mobile, broadband and entertainment services at a single convenient location. It joins Qtel´s two other leading- edge ´concept stores´.
ExxonMobil Corporation, one of the world´s most powerful energy industry executives believes Qatar will emerge as a world-class science and technological cluster. Rex W Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation, the world´s largest publicly traded international oil and gas company hailed Qatar´s emergence as a science and technology hub with the inauguration of Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP). Senior Vice President of Exxon.
The Olympic motto ignited students to stamp tender but talented footprints in various disciplines at the finals of the School Olympic Day at the Aspire Indoor Stadium in Doha on Friday and Saturday. Students from various schools held their nerves to come up with best performances and win accolades for themselves and their schools which might even shape their future course of action. The second edition of the School Olympic Final had its moments of ecstasy.
Ceske Aerolinie AS, the Czech Republic´s state-owned airline, expects to break even or post a pretax loss this year as oil prices and a decline in passenger numbers hurt earnings, Vice President for Finance Lubos Cerny said. "It´s difficult to make any predictions but it´s clear earnings will suffer," Cerny told reporters in an interview in Prague today. "We´re facing a tough year," Cerny said. "Our aim is to survive amid difficult market conditions." The carrier may break even or post.
The $41.1 billion acquisition Merck & Co announced on March 9 may look like a buyout of fellow drugmaker Schering-Plough Corp. The surviving company would be named Merck, run by its chief executive officer, Richard T. Clark, and based at Merck´s headquarters. Regulatory filings say otherwise. Under the companies´ socalled reverse merger, Schering- Plough, of Kenilworth, New Jersey, would legally be the last one standing.
In the last few months, most Americans have felt poorer. Now they have the numbers to prove it. The Federal Reserve reported on Thursday that households lost $5.1 trillion, or 9 percent, of their wealth in the last three months of 2008, the most ever lost in a single quarter in the 57-year history of record-keeping by the central bank. For the full year, household wealth dropped $11.1 trillion, or about 18 percent. Though the numbers do not yet reflect it, the decline in the stock market.
Polish wildcard Urszula Radwanska ended Svetlana Kuznetsova´s hopes of reaching a third straight Indian Wells final, ousting the sixthseeded Russian in the second round on Friday. Radwanska, ranked 107th in the world, triumphed 6-2, 4-6, 6- 3, but not before an ankle injury appeared to jeopardise her chances of even completing the final game. After breaking Kuznetsova in the eighth game for a 5-3 lead in the third set, Radwanska faltered on her first match point in the next game.
Explosive England batsman Kevin Pietersen has urged fellow-English cricketers to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in order to improve their performances in one-day cricket. Referring to India´s series win in New Zealand, the dashing English batsman said, "Have you seen the way they are playing in New Zealand? I think the reason why India have gone through the roof is because of the Indian Premier League."
An inspired India stunned world champions Australia by 16 runs to kick off their Super Six campaign in style at the ICC Women´s World Cup tournament on Saturday. Australian skipper Karen Rolton´s decision to field first backfired as Indian openers Anagha Despandhe (45) and Anjum Chopra (76) gave a steady start to the visitors´ innings. A late onslaught by Amita Sharma (31) and Harmanpreet Kaur helped the Indians accumulate 73 runs in the last seven overs and take the total to a respectable.
Wandering through Rebecca Warren´s Serpentine Gallery show in London is a pleasurable experience, until you find yourself among the dead. The title says it all: We Are Dead. Here are a bunch of grey clay lumps, paint daubed here and there into their gnarly surfaces, like the mould on funerary statues in overgrown cemeteries. I start to see faces and limbs, an ear, a mouth, a fist or a bust- but the human clay seems to be reverting to mud. This dumb assembly might be waiting for something.
British-Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha is kept busy looking after her twins, but she has decided to return to direction with It´s An Afterlife and is upbeat about signing on Shabana Azmi. "I´ve chosen to direct a relatively smaller film. It´s just a seven-week shoot and we´ve the weekends off. And then there´s three months of post-production when I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. The editing will be done right next door.
At 31, actor Ashton Kutcher has learned how not to count years or think about age differences in people. Kutcher, who stars in an independent movie Personal Effects playing in New York for one day, said he and wife Demi Moore, 46, pay no attention to the 15-year gap between them, and he rarely thinks about his own age. "Don´t try to figure out where you are on the scale, just be where you are," said Kutcher, best known for his former role in television´s That ´70s.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is
due to formally open his country’s
first Gulf-based military base in Abu
Dhabi in May. It will be the first such
French base in the Gulf and it will
face the Strait of Hormuz.
Pakistan’s Information Minister
Sherry Rehman resigned on Friday
amid a deepening political crisis over
the government’s refusal to reinstate
judges sacked under emergency rule,
officials said.
Qatar Telecom (Qtel) unveiled its new Qtel Service Centre at Landmark Mall, in an opening ceremony attended by leading community representatives and a delegation of Qtel executives on Saturday. The service centre at Landmark is the 16th Qtel outlet in Qatar and is one of the first of its kind to offer a broad range of consumer landline, mobile, broadband and entertainment services at a single convenient location. It joins Qtel´s two other leading- edge ´concept stores´. 
ExxonMobil Corporation, one of the world´s most powerful energy industry executives believes Qatar will emerge as a world-class science and technological cluster. Rex W Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation, the world´s largest publicly traded international oil and gas company hailed Qatar´s emergence as a science and technology hub with the inauguration of Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP). Senior Vice President of Exxon.
The Olympic motto ignited students to stamp tender but talented footprints in various disciplines at the finals of the School Olympic Day at the Aspire Indoor Stadium in Doha on Friday and Saturday. Students from various schools held their nerves to come up with best performances and win accolades for themselves and their schools which might even shape their future course of action. The second edition of the School Olympic Final had its moments of ecstasy. 
Ceske Aerolinie AS, the Czech Republic´s state-owned airline, expects to break even or post a pretax loss this year as oil prices and a decline in passenger numbers hurt earnings, Vice President for Finance Lubos Cerny said. "It´s difficult to make any predictions but it´s clear earnings will suffer," Cerny told reporters in an interview in Prague today. "We´re facing a tough year," Cerny said. "Our aim is to survive amid difficult market conditions." The carrier may break even or post.
The $41.1 billion acquisition Merck & Co announced on March 9 may look like a buyout of fellow drugmaker Schering-Plough Corp. The surviving company would be named Merck, run by its chief executive officer, Richard T. Clark, and based at Merck´s headquarters. Regulatory filings say otherwise. Under the companies´ socalled reverse merger, Schering- Plough, of Kenilworth, New Jersey, would legally be the last one standing. 
In the last few months, most Americans have felt poorer. Now they have the numbers to prove it. The Federal Reserve reported on Thursday that households lost $5.1 trillion, or 9 percent, of their wealth in the last three months of 2008, the most ever lost in a single quarter in the 57-year history of record-keeping by the central bank. For the full year, household wealth dropped $11.1 trillion, or about 18 percent. Though the numbers do not yet reflect it, the decline in the stock market.
Polish wildcard Urszula Radwanska ended Svetlana Kuznetsova´s hopes of reaching a third straight Indian Wells final, ousting the sixthseeded Russian in the second round on Friday. Radwanska, ranked 107th in the world, triumphed 6-2, 4-6, 6- 3, but not before an ankle injury appeared to jeopardise her chances of even completing the final game. After breaking Kuznetsova in the eighth game for a 5-3 lead in the third set, Radwanska faltered on her first match point in the next game. 
Explosive England batsman Kevin Pietersen has urged fellow-English cricketers to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in order to improve their performances in one-day cricket. Referring to India´s series win in New Zealand, the dashing English batsman said, "Have you seen the way they are playing in New Zealand? I think the reason why India have gone through the roof is because of the Indian Premier League." 
An inspired India stunned world champions Australia by 16 runs to kick off their Super Six campaign in style at the ICC Women´s World Cup tournament on Saturday. Australian skipper Karen Rolton´s decision to field first backfired as Indian openers Anagha Despandhe (45) and Anjum Chopra (76) gave a steady start to the visitors´ innings. A late onslaught by Amita Sharma (31) and Harmanpreet Kaur helped the Indians accumulate 73 runs in the last seven overs and take the total to a respectable. 
Wandering through Rebecca Warren´s Serpentine Gallery show in London is a pleasurable experience, until you find yourself among the dead. The title says it all: We Are Dead. Here are a bunch of grey clay lumps, paint daubed here and there into their gnarly surfaces, like the mould on funerary statues in overgrown cemeteries. I start to see faces and limbs, an ear, a mouth, a fist or a bust- but the human clay seems to be reverting to mud. This dumb assembly might be waiting for something. 
British-Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha is kept busy looking after her twins, but she has decided to return to direction with It´s An Afterlife and is upbeat about signing on Shabana Azmi. "I´ve chosen to direct a relatively smaller film. It´s just a seven-week shoot and we´ve the weekends off. And then there´s three months of post-production when I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. The editing will be done right next door. 
At 31, actor Ashton Kutcher has learned how not to count years or think about age differences in people. Kutcher, who stars in an independent movie Personal Effects playing in New York for one day, said he and wife Demi Moore, 46, pay no attention to the 15-year gap between them, and he rarely thinks about his own age. "Don´t try to figure out where you are on the scale, just be where you are," said Kutcher, best known for his former role in television´s That ´70s. 
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is
due to formally open his country’s
first Gulf-based military base in Abu
Dhabi in May. It will be the first such
French base in the Gulf and it will
face the Strait of Hormuz.
Pakistan’s Information Minister
Sherry Rehman resigned on Friday
amid a deepening political crisis over
the government’s refusal to reinstate
judges sacked under emergency rule,
officials said.
