People working in beauty parlours and barbershops across the city have been asked to wear face masks and hand gloves while attending to their customers, as a precaution against the spread of swine flu.

Qatar Holding LLC aims to become the largest shareholder in Songbird Estates (owner of much of London’s Canary Wharf office complex), the investment arm of Qatar Investment Authority said on Friday.

The investment company accused of cheating investors to the tune of QR200m has announced it will refund the money to the victims today and tomorrow.

The criminal court has sentenced an Arab expatriate woman accused of killing a pedestrian through reckless driving to one month’s imprisonment. The court also ordered her to pay QR200,000 as blood money to the victim through the insurance company concerned.

Saleh Al Hamad Al Mana Co, exclusive distributors for Nissan, Infiniti and Renault, launched their 2009 Ramadan campaign this week.

A job market squeeze in the West coupled with Qatar’s decision to launch a number of international schools is drawing huge numbers of newly-qualified teachers to the country.

Qatar has taken a 6.78 percent stake in Europe’s biggest carmaker Volkswagen as part of a plan to take over around 17 percent of the company, Volkswagen said yesterday.

The prestigious British independent school, Sherborne, will hold a celebration to mark the launch of its Doha campus, Sherborne Qatar, on September 9, 2009. The new school will start its academic session for junior students on September 27.

More than 80% expatriate employees said they were happy they had come to Qatar, according to a jobs and employment survey released yesterday.

The website containing an image bank of H H Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned was officially launched yesterday.