 | QA launches direct flight to Baku QATAR Airways (QA) launched
its first flight to the
Azerbaijani city of Baku as part
of its expansion programme
this year. This is the newest
European route among Qatar
Airways´ destinations.
Qatar Airways will operate
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| | NTSC holds seminar on
highway safety standards |  THE National Traffic Safety
Committee (NTSC) in collaboration
with Naif Arab
University for Security
Sciences held a three-day
seminar on ´Safety Standards
of Long Highways´.
The opening ceremony of
the seminar, which ended on
Wednesday, was attended by
Traffic Department Director
Brigadier Mohammed Saad al
Kharji, NTSC Secretary-
General Brigadier
Mohammed Abdullah al
Maliki, Head of Police
Sciences at Naif University Dr
Abbas Abu Shama Abdul
Mahmoud, Dean of Studies
and Research Centre at the
University Prof Ahsan
Mubarak Taleb and a number
of department heads ... |
| | Cross enrollment prepares NUQ
student for media career |  WHEN Sara Khodr moved to
Qatar with her family, after
having spent the first 14 years
of her life in Seattle, USA, she
was struck by how much people
here knew about the West
and how little her friends
back in the West knew of the
Middle East. Sara, who
comes from a Lebanese background,
resolved to use the
power of media to help right
this imbalance.
"I started to realise then
that I wanted to give voice to
people and issues that matter
in the Middle East but are
often overlooked in international
media," said Khodr,
now an undergraduate at
Northwestern University in
Qatar. "I wanted to fight common
stereotypes ... |
| | Small Doha´s big power amazes German city mayor |  QATAR has just won another
admirer. Andreas Brand, the
Lord Mayor of the German
city of Friedrichshafen, who
was in the country for a visit
recently told Qatar Tribune
that Doha may be a "small
city" but it wields "big power".
What the non-partisan
politician, who heads the city
government of the second
biggest town in Lake
Constance region near the
Austria and Switzerland border
down south, did not say
was that the same went for his
city as well.
The man who as Lord
Mayor of Friedrichshafen
chairs the supervisory
board of Zeppelin (the
Zeppelin foundation is managed
by the City of
Friedrichshafen). |
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