MAN is shot in the head, and
joyous celebrations break
out 7,000 miles A away.
Although Americans are in
full agreement that the
demise of Osama bin Laden is a good
thing, many are disturbed by the revelry.
We should seek justice, not
vengeance, they urge. Doesn´t this lower
us to "their" level? Didn´t the Rev Dr
Martin Luther King Jr say, "I will
mourn the loss of thousands of precious
lives, but I will not rejoice in the death
of one, not even an enemy"? (No, he did
not, but the Twitter users who popularised
that misattributed quotation last
week found it inspiring nonetheless.)
Why are so many Americans...
WATCHING the talk
shows, thinking about
the tumultuous last
American decade,
reflecting on the death
of Osama bin Laden, I feel grateful
for many things but not least this:
the invisibility of the heroes.
For once it is the deed itself that
speaks. The deed, so often lost in
this age of celebrities and reality
shows and Donald Trump´s monumental
ego, stands unadorned. In
its daring, its professionalism and
its effectiveness, the deed is there,
making words look cheap.
The deed was that of the 79 US
commandos, who have met with
their commander-in-chief,
President Obama, and who are
known to one another, but are
unknown to us. For secrecy is their
covenant.
Dispatched from Jalalabad,
Afghanistan...
QATAR hosted a conference
of the Libyan National
Transitional Council at the
Ritz Carlton on Wednesday.
Welcoming the representatives
of the 23 councils from
east, west and south of Libya,
Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs...
THERE is some good news for people seeking driving licence in Qatar. The Traffic Department at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) is likely to relax the rules currently needed to apply for a driving licence. At present, people...
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THE 64th Cannes Film Festival, theatre of carefully plotted ceremonies and killer competition, is built in a seismic zone - anything can happen - and the ghosts of festivals past, even those who didn't obey the protocol...
OVER 60 participants, including attorney-Generals and representatives of various regional and international organisations participated in a conference on combating corruption in Doha on Wednesday. The participants were drawn from agencies combating corruption, regulating the private sector in the Gulf States, as well as major international corporations and business sector in the region. The ´Conference on Integrity in the Private Sector...
QATARGAS hosted the first session of its 2011 ´Women in the Workplace´ programme for female Qataris recently. The three-day programme was attended by participants from Qatar Petroleum, RasGas, Maersk, Qatar Electricity and Q-Chem as well as other local business sector. The programme, which was entirely conducted by women, provided information for the participants about ´what works well´ in the corporate world. Qatargas Learning and Development...
THE Bihar Foundation, Qatar chapter, in association with the Indian Association for Bihar and Jharkhand (IABJ), a socio-cultural organisation affiliated to the Indian Cultural Centre (ICC), will celebrate the Bihar Diwas at Al Ghazaal Club on Friday. The event will mark the beginning of the centenary celebrations of Bihar which separated from Bengal on March 22, 1912. During the function, the...
TOP global steelmaker ArcelorMittal said on Wednesday its first quarter net profit rebounded to $1.07 billion (744 million euros) following a setback at the end of last year due to exceptional items. The company, by far the biggest steelmaker by volume, said it expected profitability to improve further in the second quarter due to increased seasonal factors and increased underlying demand. The group reported a loss for the last quarter of 2010 because of costs arising from...
HOTEL occupancy in Qatar will continue to be at substantial levels even after the 2022 World Cup is over as the country is fast emerging as a sports, education and tourism hub, a senior hotelier has said. "With massive investments being made in education, sports and tourism, there will be considerable influx of people to Qatar beyond the football world cup to provide the hotel industry with sufficient business."
Business travelers are back, and the airlines are eager to court them again. Whether they are small-business owners, sales representatives or corporate executives, business travelers these days are more often found at the front of the plane than at the back, where cuts in travel budgets confined them during the recession. The restrictive company policies that banned business-class travel, limited lodging to three-star hotels and replaced threeday sales...
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CRISTIANO Ronaldo scored a hat-trick to make it an incredible 36 league goals in the current campaign as Real Madrid defeated local rival Getafe 4-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday to prevent Barcelona from winning the league title for at least one more day. If Real had failed to win, Barcelona would have been crowned champion without playing, but Pep Guardiola´s side need a...
TITLE contenders Chennai Super Kings would look to consolidate its position and virtually seal a play-offs berth when it clashes with Delhi Daredevils, sans Virender Sehwag, in an Indian Premier League match on Thursday. The Super Kings looked impregnable at home this season with five wins from as many matches but, on the other hand, the Daredevils, who will be led by James Hopes in Sehwag.
BENIGNO Simeon "Noynoy" C. Aquino III has always viewed politics as a necessary vehicle for change, a perspective he formed early in life through the examples set by both of his parents. In 1998, he ran for a seat in the House of Representatives and won. He would serve as Congressman of the 2nd District of Tarlac until 2007. In his nine years at the Lower House, Noynoy focused on the fiscalizing role of a legislator. He felt that there were already.
FAMED filmmaker and Hollywood powerhouse Steven Spielberg, who created a foundation to preserve oral histories of the Holocaust, is honouring the head of cable TV company Comcast for his work as "an ambassador to learning." Spielberg will present Brian Roberts, chairman and chief executive officer of Philadelphia-based Comcast Corporation, with the Shoah...
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PRESIDENT
Barack Obama’s
approval rating
has hit its highest
point in two
years — 60 percent
— and
more than half of Americans now
say he deserves to be re-elected,
according to an Associated Press-
GfK poll taken after U.S. forces
killed Osama bin Laden.
THE Syrian
army shelled
residential areas
and unleashed
security forces
on Wednesday
in an intensified
push to crush the uprising against
authoritarian President Bashar
Assad, killing an 8-year-old boy
and at least 17 others, a human
rights group said.
OVER 60 participants, including attorney-Generals and representatives of various regional and international organisations participated in a conference on combating corruption in Doha on Wednesday. The participants were drawn from agencies combating corruption, regulating the private sector in the Gulf States, as well as major international corporations and business sector in the region. The ´Conference on Integrity in the Private Sector... 
QATARGAS hosted the first session of its 2011 ´Women in the Workplace´ programme for female Qataris recently. The three-day programme was attended by participants from Qatar Petroleum, RasGas, Maersk, Qatar Electricity and Q-Chem as well as other local business sector. The programme, which was entirely conducted by women, provided information for the participants about ´what works well´ in the corporate world. Qatargas Learning and Development... 
THE Bihar Foundation, Qatar chapter, in association with the Indian Association for Bihar and Jharkhand (IABJ), a socio-cultural organisation affiliated to the Indian Cultural Centre (ICC), will celebrate the Bihar Diwas at Al Ghazaal Club on Friday. The event will mark the beginning of the centenary celebrations of Bihar which separated from Bengal on March 22, 1912. During the function, the...
TOP global steelmaker ArcelorMittal said on Wednesday its first quarter net profit rebounded to $1.07 billion (744 million euros) following a setback at the end of last year due to exceptional items. The company, by far the biggest steelmaker by volume, said it expected profitability to improve further in the second quarter due to increased seasonal factors and increased underlying demand. The group reported a loss for the last quarter of 2010 because of costs arising from... 
HOTEL occupancy in Qatar will continue to be at substantial levels even after the 2022 World Cup is over as the country is fast emerging as a sports, education and tourism hub, a senior hotelier has said. "With massive investments being made in education, sports and tourism, there will be considerable influx of people to Qatar beyond the football world cup to provide the hotel industry with sufficient business." 
Business travelers are back, and the airlines are eager to court them again. Whether they are small-business owners, sales representatives or corporate executives, business travelers these days are more often found at the front of the plane than at the back, where cuts in travel budgets confined them during the recession. The restrictive company policies that banned business-class travel, limited lodging to three-star hotels and replaced threeday sales... 
SEVEN TEAMS, including two women´s outfits, will contest in the upcoming ISAF Nations Cup Asian Regional Final at the Doha Sailing Club. This is the first time that Qatar has been granted an opportunity to host the prestigious continental match racing championship, to be held from May 15 to 21. The ISAF Nations Cup is a global competition to find the world´s top match racing nations in both open and women´s events. The event is aimed at developing...
CRISTIANO Ronaldo scored a hat-trick to make it an incredible 36 league goals in the current campaign as Real Madrid defeated local rival Getafe 4-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday to prevent Barcelona from winning the league title for at least one more day. If Real had failed to win, Barcelona would have been crowned champion without playing, but Pep Guardiola´s side need a...
TITLE contenders Chennai Super Kings would look to consolidate its position and virtually seal a play-offs berth when it clashes with Delhi Daredevils, sans Virender Sehwag, in an Indian Premier League match on Thursday. The Super Kings looked impregnable at home this season with five wins from as many matches but, on the other hand, the Daredevils, who will be led by James Hopes in Sehwag.
BENIGNO Simeon "Noynoy" C. Aquino III has always viewed politics as a necessary vehicle for change, a perspective he formed early in life through the examples set by both of his parents. In 1998, he ran for a seat in the House of Representatives and won. He would serve as Congressman of the 2nd District of Tarlac until 2007. In his nine years at the Lower House, Noynoy focused on the fiscalizing role of a legislator. He felt that there were already.
FAMED filmmaker and Hollywood powerhouse Steven Spielberg, who created a foundation to preserve oral histories of the Holocaust, is honouring the head of cable TV company Comcast for his work as "an ambassador to learning." Spielberg will present Brian Roberts, chairman and chief executive officer of Philadelphia-based Comcast Corporation, with the Shoah... 
STHANIYA Sambaad (Spring in the Colony), directed by Arjun Gourisaria and Moinak Biswas, has won the Best Feature Film award at the 11th Annual New York Indian Film Festival. Capping off five days of Indian cinematic excellence, the festival concluded with the spectacular closing night red carpet premiere of Rituparno Ghosh´s powerful film Noukadubi at the Asia Society in Manhattan. The premier was attended by Indian Consul General. 
