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Renewable energy, key to future needs: Wood
WITH abundant sunlight available across GCC countries for most of the day, they must make efforts to make maximum use of the potential to generate power, Siemens Renewable Energy Division Regional Director Adrian Wood has said. Talking to Qatar Tribune recently, Wood said that global power consumption will increase from the present 20,300 TWh to...
Egypt´s Fledgling Democracy
IN Cairo last week I found myself buying a couple of "I love Egypt" T-shirts. When a woman came up to me and, with much the same solemn pushiness as a squeegee merchant, began to paint the colours of the Egyptian flag on my hand, I did not resist. Speakers in one corner were working up a thin crowd, promising retribution for the ancien regime, justice to the masses. Indifferent to them...
VIRGIN GALACTIC´S SPACE ADVENTURE
Q: We´re writing this email from a high school entrepreneurship class in the United States. We would like to know what inspired you to venture into commercial space travel. At what point do you expect to turn a profit on Virgin Galactic? - Future entrepreneurs, East Greenwich High School, via Entrepreneur.com and American Express OPEN Forum AA: In 1988, in the aftermath of the Soviet...
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Moza attends MDG conference

HER HIGHNESS Sheikha Moza attended the fourth meeting of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Advocacy Group at the Lutfi Kirdar Centre in Istanbul on Sunday. The meeting was also attended by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

HEC Paris launches new energy course

MINISTER of Energy and Industries HE Dr Mohammad Saleh al Sada launched a new major of the HEC Paris EMBA Programme on Sunday. The programme entitled, 'Management in Energy Concerned Economy'...

QP in exploration pact with NOEX

QATAR Petroleum (QP) on Sunday signed a new exploration and production sharing agreement (EPSA) for offshore Block-A (pre-Khuff) with Japan's, JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Qatar) Ltd (NOEX). The 30-year EPSA.

Man United on verge of EPL title

MANCHESTER UNITED defeated Chelsea 2-1 at Old Trafford on Sunday to leave itself on the brink of a record 19th Premier League title. First-half goals from Javier Hernandez and captain Nemanja Vidic clinched a...

Riding to stardom on super her o movies

HUGH JACKMAN as Wolverine in X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine Now it seems like almost blasphemy for anyone except Hugh Jackman to play everybody's favourite anti...


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Qatar, China sign MoU to boost cooperation on judicial matters
A MEMORANDUM of understanding on strengthening cooperation in judicial matters between Qatar and China was signed on Sunday. Attorney General of Qatar Dr Ali bin Fetais al Marri and the Supreme Public Prosecutor of China CAO Jianming signed the agreement. The memorandum of understanding is aimed at forging close cooperation between Qatar and China in the field of public...
Kahramaa hosts GCC power regulators´ meet
QATAR General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa) recently hosted the 3rd meeting of GCC Electricity Regulators Forum, a release from the corporation said on Sunday. The forum comes within the GCC efforts for development of electricity sectors to ensure sustainability of services. In his opening speech, Kahramaa´s President Essa bin Hilal al Kuwari expressed his pleasure at hosting the important event that was expected to...
Qatar Academy students display talent at Arts Month concert
QATAR Academy hosted an extracurricular music programme for its students recently. The students displayed their talents at the Arts Month concert held at the school´s auditorium. Performing before an audience that included school administrators and parents, the school´s junior band, primary choir, primary orchestra and advanced band played music that ranged from...
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Mercury to touch 47 degree Celsius today: Met
THE Department of Meteorology has said Doha and surrounding areas would experience the first heat-wave spell of the season on Monday with the temperature touching 47 degree Celsius, nine degrees higher than normally recorded during this part of summer
Two Egyptian churches burnt, 12 killed in sectarian clashes
MUSLIM mobs set two Cairo churches on fire overnight during sectarian clashes that left 12 dead and more than 300 injured. The deepening religious violence in military-ruled Egypt exacerbated an already chaotic and lawless transition to democracy.
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