Qatar Charity yesterday signed agreements with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to carry out projects worth $22m in Gaza, which was devastated by the recent Israeli military offensive.

Two new faces were inducted into the State Cabinet in a major reshuffle yesterday, while apex bodies like the Supreme Education Council and the Supreme Council for Family Affairs have been reconstituted.

A freshman student bested over 30 students who presented a total of 24 research projects in the Carnegie Mellon University Qatar’s (CMU-Q) third annual Meeting of the Minds Undergraduate Research Project Symposium held yesterday.

George V Restauration, the group behind the international Buddha-Bar chain, will open a new day spa called Buddhattitude later this year at the Beverly Hills Tower.

Great job amnesia! See the thread here: Alien / Monster / Djin on the beach BUSTED

By the way this was covered on ILQ in October 2008! First with the news! http://iloveqatar.net/forum/read.php?26,1068

National Leasing Company (NLC) has said it will conduct an electronic draw for the allocation of land in Lusail for the construction of villas for Qatari citizens. The results of the draw for the executed contract between Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company and NLC would be made public on Wednesday. The draw would be held in the presence of representatives from NLC, Shariah compliance committee, Qatari Diar, the Ministry of Business and Trade, and Deloitte and Touche.

In yet another sign of Qatar’s growing economic significance, global manufacturing giant China has the largest-ever presence at the Project Qatar 2009.