It may come as a huge
surprise to many that females
turning up to apply for jobs at
the ongoing career fair at the
Exhibition Center far outnumber
their male counterparts.
About 60 percent of those
seeking jobs are females compared
with the 40 percent
males.
THERE have been two
recent reminders of the
cost of extremism. In
Afghanistan, President
Hamid Karzai signed a
law that effectively sanctions
marital rape. In
Pakistan, a video surfaced
of the Taliban in the Swat
Valley publicly flogging a
young woman.
DEPRESSION increases the
risk that people with heart
disease caused by blockage
of coronary arteries will
develop heart failure, a new study
finds.
That finding was to be expected,
said Heidi May, an epidemiologist
at the Intermountain Medical
Center in Murray, Utah.
Doha bank
has registered a net profit of
QR 330 million in the first quarter
of 2009 and expects the profit
for 2009 to be in line with a
projected 10 percent growth in
the country's gross domestic product
.
Centre for
Women and Technology for the Arab
Region (CWTAR), a major resource
to support women's involvement
in the knowledge society, is on
the anvil.A two-day workshop...
OPEC again
revised down its estimate for
world crude demand on Wednesday,
saying a "devastating contraction"
in consumption would keep prices
under pressure in the months ahead.
Al Emadi
Enterprises bagged the golden
sponsorship of the prestigious
Emir Cup football tournament again.
At the Diplomatic Club on Wednesday,
Qatar Football Association...
Since Damages
arrived on FX two years ago, much
has been made of Glenn Close's
performance as Patty Hewes, a
trial lawyer as viperfish, a woman
who would send a newborn to Attica
...
The number of medical graduates from around the world taking medical residency training programmes at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has significantly increased to 120 trainees every year. There were only 20 to 30 medical graduates taking residency training programmes at the HMC three years back. Dr Abdullatif al Khal, Director of HMC Medical Education, said that the increase in number of such trainees was brought about because young...
In the same week that RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) displayed its wealth of career opportunities for Qatari nationals during the Qatar Career Fair, five of its Qatari national employees celebrated the completion of a joint training programme in Yokohama, Japan. Senior RasGas management, including Hamad Rashid al Mohannadi, managing director (CEO), Dave Marchak, venture group manager, and Dr Marwan Musleh, RasGas general counsel, attended the official...
Qatar is a multicultural society with approximately 100 different nationalities making it a mosaic of diverse cultures. However, in this multicultural society it is rare to find people of different nationalities mingling with one another. International Ladies Potluck (IPL), a group of expatriate women, wants to change all this. More than 380 women from 65 different nationalities have come together under the IPL umbrella to promote intermingling of women...
UBS made a first-quarter loss and will cut another 11 percent of staff, its new chief executive said on Wednesday, warning that Switzerland´s largest bank still faces an uncertain future. Chief Executive Oswald Gruebel, the veteran former Credit Suisse boss pulled out of retirement in February to get UBS back into shape, said the bank will post a first-quarter loss of nearly 2 billion Swiss francs ($1.74 billion), mainly due to writedowns and outflows.
Asian stocks fell on Wednesday, despite US President Barack Obama claiming there were "glimmers of hope" for the world´s biggest economy, as fresh data suggested such optimism may be premature. Obama said the United States was beginning to show signs of moving out of its worst economic crisis in decades but warned there were months of pain ahead. "There is no doubt that times are still tough," he said in a speech billed as an update to Americans...
Banks and property firms in Dubai are renegotiating contracts and litigation cases are mounting as the global financial crisis hits the once-booming real estate sector, partners at an international law firm said. Ashley Painter, partner at Clyde & Co´s Middle East financial services unit specialising in banking and finance, said his company was dealing with dozens of cases. "Anything that is not completed I think would be under some form of negotiation. It depends, of course, which developer you are talking about...
Roger Federer started his clay season on a high as he won his first match as a married man on Wednesday, reaching the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters 6-4, 6-4 over Italian Andreas Seppi. The three-time finalist who is celebrating his honeymoon after Saturday´s surprise marriage in Basel, earned his fifth career victory over Seppi, the world number 40 who played a clay final in Gstaad two years ago. Federer, supremely relaxed and confident after marriage and awaiting a child with wife Mirka.
The final result of the New York Islanders´ worst season in nine years is the opportunity for them to land a player who just might be able to turn around the beleaguered franchise. The Islanders won the NHL draft lottery and the No. 1 overall pick on Tuesday night, giving them the right to take one of two highly touted prospects - forward John Tavares and Swedish defenseman Victor Hedman. "It put a huge smile on my face," said general manager Garth Snow, in his third year on the job. "It´s a great moment...
Andy Flower was on Wednesday named as the new England coach by the England and Wales Cricket Board. The 40-year-old former Zimbabwe and Essex batsman was unveiled as the man to lead England´s bid to win The Ashes at a press conference at Lord´s. He was the overwhelming favourite to be given the job after stepping in as caretaker when Peter Moores was sacked in January. Flower, who acted as Moores´s assistant in 2007, takes over the top job...
When I´m asked what my children are, I say, "Two boys. They like to sit on my head." The questioner understands all this, for they, too, live on Planet Boy. Read too many of the wrong sort of headlines right now and you could be forgiven for thinking Planet Boy was a pretty inhospitable place to be; that down here all was chaos, complication and challenge. Recently, the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) surveyed its members and found that, on average, boys waited much longer...
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap may have produced the play The Skeleton Woman featuring his real-life partner Kalki Koechlin, but he maintains that he prefers cinema as a medium to express his emotions. "I prefer cinema any day to theatre. When I was acting on stage, I loved the stage. But now I would choose filmmaking," said Kashyap, who was groomed on the New Delhi´s experimental stage. "The idea of creating something - showing off...
Paul Dano was a child actor, but you´d never know it to spend time with him. The precocious tics, the eagerness to please, the history of embarrassing commercials: these hallmarks are absent. Even as he was making his Broadway debut and first film, both before he was old enough to drive, he was careful to keep some semblance of regular life intact. It seems to have worked. He has been up until the wee hours, shooting a movie, The Extra Man, opposite Kevin Kline. On the heels of critically...
Confidence in the global economy
rose to an 11-month high as officials
stepped up efforts to thaw credit
markets, stocks rallied and some
banks returned to profit, a
Bloomberg survey of users on six
continents showed.
The number of medical graduates from around the world taking medical residency training programmes at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has significantly increased to 120 trainees every year. There were only 20 to 30 medical graduates taking residency training programmes at the HMC three years back. Dr Abdullatif al Khal, Director of HMC Medical Education, said that the increase in number of such trainees was brought about because young... 
In the same week that RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) displayed its wealth of career opportunities for Qatari nationals during the Qatar Career Fair, five of its Qatari national employees celebrated the completion of a joint training programme in Yokohama, Japan. Senior RasGas management, including Hamad Rashid al Mohannadi, managing director (CEO), Dave Marchak, venture group manager, and Dr Marwan Musleh, RasGas general counsel, attended the official... 
Qatar is a multicultural society with approximately 100 different nationalities making it a mosaic of diverse cultures. However, in this multicultural society it is rare to find people of different nationalities mingling with one another. International Ladies Potluck (IPL), a group of expatriate women, wants to change all this. More than 380 women from 65 different nationalities have come together under the IPL umbrella to promote intermingling of women... 
UBS made a first-quarter loss and will cut another 11 percent of staff, its new chief executive said on Wednesday, warning that Switzerland´s largest bank still faces an uncertain future. Chief Executive Oswald Gruebel, the veteran former Credit Suisse boss pulled out of retirement in February to get UBS back into shape, said the bank will post a first-quarter loss of nearly 2 billion Swiss francs ($1.74 billion), mainly due to writedowns and outflows.
Asian stocks fell on Wednesday, despite US President Barack Obama claiming there were "glimmers of hope" for the world´s biggest economy, as fresh data suggested such optimism may be premature. Obama said the United States was beginning to show signs of moving out of its worst economic crisis in decades but warned there were months of pain ahead. "There is no doubt that times are still tough," he said in a speech billed as an update to Americans...
Banks and property firms in Dubai are renegotiating contracts and litigation cases are mounting as the global financial crisis hits the once-booming real estate sector, partners at an international law firm said. Ashley Painter, partner at Clyde & Co´s Middle East financial services unit specialising in banking and finance, said his company was dealing with dozens of cases. "Anything that is not completed I think would be under some form of negotiation. It depends, of course, which developer you are talking about...
Roger Federer started his clay season on a high as he won his first match as a married man on Wednesday, reaching the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters 6-4, 6-4 over Italian Andreas Seppi. The three-time finalist who is celebrating his honeymoon after Saturday´s surprise marriage in Basel, earned his fifth career victory over Seppi, the world number 40 who played a clay final in Gstaad two years ago. Federer, supremely relaxed and confident after marriage and awaiting a child with wife Mirka. 
The final result of the New York Islanders´ worst season in nine years is the opportunity for them to land a player who just might be able to turn around the beleaguered franchise. The Islanders won the NHL draft lottery and the No. 1 overall pick on Tuesday night, giving them the right to take one of two highly touted prospects - forward John Tavares and Swedish defenseman Victor Hedman. "It put a huge smile on my face," said general manager Garth Snow, in his third year on the job. "It´s a great moment...
Andy Flower was on Wednesday named as the new England coach by the England and Wales Cricket Board. The 40-year-old former Zimbabwe and Essex batsman was unveiled as the man to lead England´s bid to win The Ashes at a press conference at Lord´s. He was the overwhelming favourite to be given the job after stepping in as caretaker when Peter Moores was sacked in January. Flower, who acted as Moores´s assistant in 2007, takes over the top job... 
When I´m asked what my children are, I say, "Two boys. They like to sit on my head." The questioner understands all this, for they, too, live on Planet Boy. Read too many of the wrong sort of headlines right now and you could be forgiven for thinking Planet Boy was a pretty inhospitable place to be; that down here all was chaos, complication and challenge. Recently, the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) surveyed its members and found that, on average, boys waited much longer...
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap may have produced the play The Skeleton Woman featuring his real-life partner Kalki Koechlin, but he maintains that he prefers cinema as a medium to express his emotions. "I prefer cinema any day to theatre. When I was acting on stage, I loved the stage. But now I would choose filmmaking," said Kashyap, who was groomed on the New Delhi´s experimental stage. "The idea of creating something - showing off... 
Paul Dano was a child actor, but you´d never know it to spend time with him. The precocious tics, the eagerness to please, the history of embarrassing commercials: these hallmarks are absent. Even as he was making his Broadway debut and first film, both before he was old enough to drive, he was careful to keep some semblance of regular life intact. It seems to have worked. He has been up until the wee hours, shooting a movie, The Extra Man, opposite Kevin Kline. On the heels of critically...
The Doha Securities Market (DSM)
benchmark index climbed 28 points
to 5,233.84 on Wednesday, led by
continued buying support of foreign
institutions.
Confidence in the global economy
rose to an 11-month high as officials
stepped up efforts to thaw credit
markets, stocks rallied and some
banks returned to profit, a
Bloomberg survey of users on six
continents showed.
