 | | Qatari women set to launch fashion magazine |
 MAKING
a foray into the fashion and lifestyle world, three young Qatari
women have joined hands to launch an English magazine from Doha.
Named HauteMuse, the magazine will be published quarterly. Talking
to Qatar Tribune, Fatma Hamad al Thani and Noor Rashid al Thani,
both owners of the magazine, said that each issue would be theme-based
with an innovative layout. "We will... |
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|  |  | | UK Monarchy: How Relevant? |
 AMID
the flag-waving and the street parties to celebrate the marriage
of Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday, bigger questions
about the relevance of the monarchy to modern Britain lurk like
uninvited guests. Extravagant living in a time of austerity
abrades public sensibilities; unearned privilege is resented,
while snobbery and elitism are seen as dangerously outmoded.
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DELUSION |
| COL Moamar Qadhafi is a vain man. Like
the other Arab dinosaurs he has his dyed hair, his designer
shades, his spoiled children and his compound full of sycophants.
He doesn´t want, one day, to be dragged from a rat hole
like Saddam Hussein or hauled from a bunker like the Ivory Coast´s
Laurent Gbagbo. So what´s his calculation? Does he have
one at all? Here in liberated eastern Libya, where the tricolour
Qadhafi banished now flies... |
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 | Malaysian varsity wins Arabic debate THE International Islamic University of Malaysia won the first International Universities Arabic Debating Championship (IUADC) in a nail-biting final at the Student Centre of the Education City on Thursday. Organised by QatarDebate Center, this was the first...
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| | Qatar records first robotic
ENT surgery in Gulf region |
 THE
Qatar Robotic Surgery Centre (QRSC)
performed the first robotic ENT surgery
in the Gulf region recently. QRSC Director
and Chairman of Surgery at the Hamad
Medical Corporation (HMC) Dr Abdulla
al Ansari said the procedure was successfully
conducted on an obese patient suffering
from snoring and sleep apnea. Speaking
to the media on the sidelines of the
just-concluded Pumps and Pipes Conference
on Thursday, Ansari said, "We were
impressed with the procedure because
it was faster than we thought. The procedure
is called tongue reduction and is performed
for people who are obese and suffering
from snoring and sleep apnea. "We
decreased the size of... |
| | Katara to host multicultural kite-flying event |
 OVER
130 kites from seven countries will
glide across the skies of Doha during
the first Katara International Kites
Family Day which will be held on May
6 and 7 The event, which is open to
the public, will take place from 3 pm
to 10 pm on each day at the Esplanade
in Katara, the Cultural Village. During
the event, kite flying teams from China,
India, Japan, Korea, Singapore, the
Netherlands and the United States will
demonstrate their kite flying skills
to entertain spectators and conduct
workshops on how to make, design and
fly kites. General Manager of the Cultural
Village, Marcio Barbosa said, "Our goal
at Katara is to foster a continuous...
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| | IOC TEAM GETS GLIMPSE OF
GREEN TECHNOLOGY |
 INTERNATIONAL
Olympic Committee President Dr Jacques
Rogge visited the ´Green Technologies´
exhibition, which opened on the sidelines
of the ninth World Conference on Sport
and Environment at the Sheraton Hotel
on Sunday. President of Hungary, IOC
member and Chairman of IOC Commission
for Sport and Environment Dr Pal Schmitt
accompanied Dr Rogge during the visit.
The high-level delegation was taken
to the venue by Qatar Olympic Committee
(QOC) Secretary-General Sheikh Saoud
bin Abdulrahman al Thani. The delegates
made their first stopover at the Aluminium
Gulf Ray pavilion. The company officials
manning the... |
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