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Qatar and the United Kingdom yesterday signed an agreement in London on the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of financial evasion pertaining to income-tax and capital between the two countries. The agreement was signed for Qatar by the Minister of Economy and Finance, H E Yousuf Hussein Kamal, and for Britain by the Financial Secretary to the UK Treasury, Stephen Timms.

Qatari nationals and other tourists who want to spend their summer vacation in Thailand will be exempt from tourist visa fees until March 4 next year, the Thai Embassy in Qatar announced yesterday.

Qtel is offering two free new movies this weekend on its Mozaic TV+ service to celebrate the start of school holidays.

Porsche is advancing towards a deal with Qatar to give the country a shareholding in Volkswagen, a compromise that will clear the way for the carmakers to merge, according to people involved in the talks.

Qatar busted an international drug trafficking network and seized four million pills of the illegal stimulant captagon, costing approximately QR112m in what is described as the biggest-ever drugs haul in the country

Qatar has been increasingly targeted by drug traffickers due to its proximity to countries producing and consuming drugs and narcotics, a senior official of the Ministry of Interior said yesterday.

The Department of Labour has been abolished by an Emiri Decision issued on Tuesday and instead of one, seven departments are being created at the Ministry of Labour to make it more efficient and enable it to enforce the labour law more effectively.

The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani presided over the Cabinet’s weekly session at the Emiri Diwan yesterday.

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Vodafone Qatar CEO Graeme Maher yesterday said that the next “first” in the company’s opening year – offering services to non-shareholders - will “definitely take place before the end of July.”