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The US pharmaceutical major Panacea will open a state-of-the-art Cancer Research Centre at Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP). The QSTP Center will be Panacea’s first and exclusive research institute for the MENA region, Professor Dr Hossein Ghanbari (pictured) , Chairman and CEO of Pancea Pharmaceuticals told The Peninsula yesterday.

THE Pearl-Qatar, being promoted as the most glamorous address in the Middle East, is gearing up to host Qatar’s first-ever exhibition of luxury and supercars on November 21 and 22.

THE Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has praised Qatar’s diplomatic moves seeking to hold a conference of the Arab-African Committee in Doha to end the Darfur crisis.

Get ready Mr James Bond 007, the state-of-the-art sophisticated weapons and technologically advanced security systems equipment in the world are here. Set for a three-day exhibition, manufactures, developers, experts and consultants converged at the Qatar International Exhibition Centre to show off their wares on the latest internal state security technologies.

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.