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Al Jazeera Children’s Channel’s (JCC) won three gold awards for My Simple Story at the 14th Cairo Arab Media Festival last Saturday.

A few private clinics in Qatar that have been run by general practitioners will soon be phased out, as a specialist degree has been made mandatory for physicians setting up such facilities, a senior official of the National Health Authority (NHA) has said.

Strong structural reforms undertaken by the Gulf governments since 2001, huge economic diversification and liberalisation under way in some countries like the UAE combined with huge fiscal reserves are likely to minimise the impact of global economic slowdown on Gulf economies.

The Qatari capital will host the second leg of the 2008 GCC Cycling Championship on November 22, Majid Al Naimi, Secretary General of Qatar Cycling Federation (GCF) announced yesterday.

The Doha International Institute for Family Studies and Development (DIIFSD) and the Supreme Council for Family Affairs will hold a conference on Impact of Violence Against Women on the Family from November 19. Violence against Women (VAW) is a universal problem that continues to persist and constitutes a widespread violation of human rights and a real obstacle to peace and development. In February this year, the United Nations Organisation launched a multi-year campaign which runs until 2015 to

With just 100 days to go before the dawn of competition, the battle between Vodafone and Qtel is hotting up. With Vodafone yet to release a single detail about their pricing plans, Qtel has again released new offers to tempt customers to stay with them.

The completion of the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway project would now likely attract Bahrainis to work in Qatar unlike early this year when there were no takers for the jobs offered to Bahrainis here. Subah Al Dossari, Directorate of Public and International Relations in Bahrain, said once the causeway project is inaugurated, the recruitment of Bahrainis would become popular.

A TOTAL of 96 women participated in the Standard Chartered Ladies Golf Tournament last week to raise funds for ‘Seeing is Believing’, a global sight-restoration initiative.