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The world’s best competitive divers will be seen in action in Doha with the Qatar Swimming Association announcing the staging of the FINA Diving World Series 2009 to be held on March 21 and 22.

Qatar University’s expansion work has concluded with two new buildings set to open soon.

Qatar achieves today a milestone in its mission to become a thriving knowledge and research hub with the inauguration of Qatar Science & Technology Park. HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and his wife and Qatar Foundation chairperson HH Sheikha Mozah Nasser al-Misnad will lead a galaxy of dignitaries on the occasion. Picture: Jayaram http://gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=278973&version=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56

The Doha Centre for Media Freedom in a statement yesterday expressed shock over French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s comment that he would not renew the contract of the current head of Radio France, which includes all the country’s public radio stations.

The Ministry of Labour has suspended transactions of 148 private companies from the 1st to 5th of current March for violating provisions of the labour law. The Labour department said in a press statement that the decisions to suspend the transactions of these companies was part of the current intensive campaign conducted by the department’s inspectors to tighten control over the private sector companies in order to urge them to commit to provisions of the labor law.

There is an urgent need for media to improve the accuracy of factual reporting besides understanding the ground realities in the complex political and social landscape of the Middle East, according to Wadah Khanfar, Director General of Al Jazeera Network. He was speaking at the opening session of the Fourth Aljazeera Forum here yesterday.

The Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking (QFCHT) has set up hotlines - 4669888 & 5643388 - for receiving complaints from victims of human trafficking.

Qatar will officially submit its football World Cup bid file at FIFA headquarters in Swiss capital Zurich today.

All the Arabic medium schools – government and private – have been given a period of three years with effect from the next academic year to amend their curriculums so as to be in line with the new concepts of education, says a report published in the local Arabic daily Arrayah.

More than 900 exhibitors and 22 national pavilions from 38 countries spread over 36,000 square metres of exhibition space will feature at this year’s Project Qatar 2009, making it the largest-ever exhibition in Project Qatar’s six-year run.