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Over 800 clients of Qtel along Al Nasr and Salwa Roads experienced sudden disruption in voice and data services yesterday when contractors working on a road in the Al Waab area accidentally cut the cables.

The Al Jazeera network played a major role in exposing Israeli atrocities by showing the suffering of hapless Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the recent aggression in the territory, panelists in a discussion at the Al Jazeera forum said yesterday.

Consumer confidence in Qatar remains one of the most optimistic in the Middle East for the first half of 2009 despite global and regional economic challenges.

H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani officially submitting Qatar’s football World Cup bid file to FIFA President Sepp Blatter at FIFA headquarters in Zurich yesterday. Sheikh Mohammed is chief of a 24-member committee, formed to oversee Qatar’s preparation to win the rights to host the game’s showpiece event. President of Qatar Football Association, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is also seen. Qatar is aiming to win the rights to host either the 2018 edition or the one to be held in 2022.

Around 60 to 65 percent of Qatari businessmen will participate in Doha’s International Wedding Exhibition and Fashion Show (IWED) 2009. The organisers of the exhibition also announced they are expecting around 150 wedding companies to take part and about 18,000 guests to attend the event, which will take place at the Doha Exhibition Centre from tomorrow until March 21.

Qatar is set to witness further advances in its healthcare sector with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between General Electric Company and Qatar Foundation yesterday.

Vodafone Qatar will raise QR3.38bn by selling its 40% stake through a two-week-long initial public offering from April 12.

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Bootcamp Qatar recently started in Doha and is proving a great success.

Software piracy rate in Qatar has decreased by almost 10 percent within the last five years as a result of anti-piracy efforts initiated by the government, according to a new report.