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Qtel will support this year’s Earth Hour as part of its commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency. The company will switch-off every light in its Headquarter Tower in West Bay at 8.30pm for an hour as part of the international campaign today.

Doha Municipality has removed 159 kiosks and 413 abandoned cars from the Towers area in a drive organised in cooperation with the Public Cleaning Project. Tower area has been facing shortage of parking lots. And this campaign has created more open spaces there, a source from the municipality told a local Arabic daily yesterday. http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=March2009&file=Local_News2009032863620.xml

The Traffic Safety Week Campaign in Mesaieed is targeting the thousands of labourers in the industrial city. A travelling Traffic Safety Roadshow trailer has been introduced to get the safety message across to the workers in various camps in Mesaieed.

Accidents are likely to happen if drivers do not exercise greater judgment when using multi-lane roundabouts, an expert has warned.

Money laundering and financing terrorism are the most dangerous financial crimes which have negative impacts on society, a Doha seminar was told.

A team of 50 staff from Regency Travel & Tours participated in the Green and Clean Qatar campaign held at the Sealine beach area.

This year’s Doha Cultural Festival has been cancelled due to it coinciding with other events in the city. “Yes, the Doha Cultural Festival this year has been cancelled for a number of reasons,” an official from the Ministry of Culture said yesterday. According to a report from the Qatar News Agency, the Ministry’s reasons for canceling the festival include the celebration of the Cultural City of Arabs 2010 event, which Doha will be hosting, and several other events and expositions happening in

The Capital Security Department (Capital Police) has opened a new office to receive cases of violence against women and children.

Reflecting the needs of the ever growing population in Qatar, the Out–Patient Department (OPD) of the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is to initiate new projects. HMC has an OPD with 122 clinics in the morning and 29 in the evening which caters to more than 1,600 patients each day, according to healthcare experts.

Qatar is under pressure not to receive Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir at an Arab summit next week over an international indictment for war crimes, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani has said.