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IBQ yesterday announced the expansion of its credit card portfolio with the launch of a new range of premium payment solutions, all of which offer five percent cash back on purchases made using the card.

Legal luminaries from across the world are converging here today to discuss, among other things, legal ways to tackle some of the challenges being posed by the world financial crisis.

The Spanish Embassy presented the audience at the Qatar National Theatre a glimpse of Spain with the performance of the Trio Mediterraneo last night.

The Ministry of the Interior has honoured two employees in the Doha International Airport for their honesty and cooperation with the police.

The Doha Centre for Media Freedom has expressed its support for Adel Al Mallah, an investigative reporter with Al-Sharq, who has received anonymous death threats.

The first United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-west Asia and the Arab Region officially opened in Doha yesterday, extending Qatar’s commitment in upholding human rights to its neighbouring countries.

Special envoys to Sudan from the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and the European Union yesterday called upon all parties to the Darfur conflict to cease hostilities and engage in the ongoing peace process in Doha to put an end to the suffering of the people of Darfur.

The Medical Licensing Department at the Supreme Council of Health will soon start receiving applications online from private doctors seeking a licence to practise in Qatar, a senior official of the Council has said.

Having been on the defensive for months since the world economic slowdown began late last year, bankers here now say consumer spending must rise to repulse the simmering fallout of recession.

Workers covered by the labour law are entitled to end-of-service benefits after putting in one year of continuous service, says the legislation, according to a guidebook for foreign investors released yesterday by a prominent law firm, Al Tamimi and Company.