DOHA: Hyatt Plaza dedicated its 8th anniversary celebration to its mall tenants and their families. The to-go destination for families in Qatar, Hyatt Plaza Shopping Mall collaborated with its one of its anchor tenants, Kiddy Zone, to organise a children’s event featuring popular international cartoon characters, SpongeBob, The Smurfs, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and Goofy.

DOHA: Qatar is expected to continue posting double digit real growth rates in 2010 and 2011 of 16 percent and 18.6 percent, respectively, posting the highest growth rate in the GCC region supported by the five- year government spending plan which will maintain high levels of capital spending on infrastructure and real economic sectors, according to a research report by Kamco.

DOHA: Qatar Charity announced that two of its delegations have arrived at the Tunisian-Libyan border and the Egyptian-Libyan border to provide emergency aid and coordinate medical relief for persons affected by the latest developments in Libya.

DOHA: A Qatari student who studies in the quake-battered Japanese coastal city of Sendai and all other Qataris in different parts of Japan are safe amid the devastation wrought by the the biggest earthquake that hit the country on Friday.

CAIRO/ RAS LANUF: Arab countries appealed to the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone on Libya as pro-government troops backed by warplanes fought to drive rebels from remaining strongholds in the west of the country.

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