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Qtel yesterday launched a new Mozaic MOB service called Tarjim. Tarjim is an SMS-based translation service which enables customers to translate words and short phrases from English into Arabic and vice versa.

The Court of First Instance ordered a senior official, who supervises equipment and safety at worksite, a construction company and insurance firm to pay a compensation of QR450,000 as blood money to the families of three labourers killed at a work-related accident in the West Bay area last year.

The proposed sponsorship law took one step closer to be being issued, as the special committee at the Advisory Council completed its study on certain controversial provisions of the draft law.

Arabic newspapers lash out at US, UK terror alerts !

The Qatari flag will fly atop Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain peak in Africa, in August this year.

The Center for Information Security, Q-CERT, a member of ictQATAR, has signed an agreement with Microsoft to join its Security Cooperation Program (SCP).

Qatar's sovereign wealth fund is considering backing a share issue by British bank Barclays, which could raise more than $7.81bn from investors, the Financial Times reported.

Minister of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture HE Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al-Thani arrived in Spain yesterday.

CONSUMER confidence in Qatar remains high in a MasterCard indicative survey with some 400 respondents expressing ‘optimism’ about employment, economy, regular income and quality of life in the country in the next six months.

Employees of Sharq Village and Spa donated clothing and other essential items to the Qatar Charity Fund as part of the Community Footprints Programme of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.