Chairman of the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority, HE Abdul Aziz al-Noaimi, has signed a contract worth QR13mn with Selex Sistemi for supplying and installing advanced surface movement guidance and control systems (A-SMGCS) at Doha International Airport.

The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has received a letter from the President of the United States of America Barack Obama pertaining to the cooperative relations between the two countries and issues of common concern.

Business at Souq Waqif is thriving over the past few weeks as people have been picking up traditional gifts to take along when traveling abroad.

A dynamic Shaolin Kung-Fu theatre group will entertain visitors to City Centre Doha (CCD) as they feature in CCD’s summer events from tomorrow until July 25.

A decree issued yesterday paved the way for setting up a company to manage ports in the country, while another decree converted the Qatar General Postal Corporation (Q-Post) into a Qatari shareholding company.

The weather in Qatar will be hot and blowing dust.

Qtel has said its Shahry – pay monthly value packs offer “exceptional affordability and flexibility” to customers than the second mobile operator - Vodafone, according to a comparative study.

Vodafone is seeking a Qatar-specific agreement with Apple to sell the American consumer electronics and software company’s iPhone in the country.

Local parents are divided over whether or not science should be taught in English in the newly formed Independent Schools after the latest examinations showed a steep drop in students’ grades. Educationists are finding that instead of focusing on the subject at hand, students are spending most of their energy trying to find their way around complicated English terms that they have never heard before, having been taught science in Arabic up until this year.

The Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) common nuclear power plant is expected to become a reality by 2015. The GCC will announce the name of the host country early next year, said a top official who is actively involved in the coordination of the proposed nuclear power plant.