Qatar Foundation will hold its annual “Discover Education City” admissions open-house event on Wednesday, starting at 6pm in the atrium of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. The sessions during the event will raise awareness of the academic programmes offered at the higher education institutions, the admissions process and the vast resources available at Qatar Foundation’s Education City. The event is open to all secondary students and their parents in Qatar, as well as school counsellors.

W Hotel hosted the first ‘Chefs Table’, a gathering of 39 executive head chefs from all over Qatar as part of their preparation of the upcoming Diyafa 2009, the fourth edition of the international hotel, restaurant and food exhibition.

Qatari and Japanese students recently learned the traditional Japanese art of ‘Sumi-e’ (black and white painting) at the Japan School of Doha (JSD).

The Second Qatar International Exhibition for Tower Building Technologies (TowerTech 2009) opened yesterday at the Qatar International Exhibition Centre with nearly a hundred exhibitors participating mostly from Qatar showing the Qatari economy’s strength amid global crisis.

Qatar Airways has shown its commitment to the environment and we expect this alternative fuel to provide benefits, particularly the improvement of air quality.

A four-year-old girl was trapped in a school bus for hours — from early morning until the time the school closed for the day early in the afternoon. The girl was headed for the school with other children. She slept on the way and no one noticed. The bus reached the school and everyone got down except the girl. The driver locked the doors of the bus and went away without realising the girl was inside. The girl got up from her sleep a little later and began screaming finding she was alone in the

Qatar, the world’s largest natural gas producer, witnessed its national airline fly a plane using a fuel made of natural gas.

The Loydence Academy, a primary school based in Al Dafna, which offers the National Curriculum of England, will be launched on October 18.

ictQATAR continues its series of useful consumer tips on a variety of telecom issues.

The weather in Qatar will be fine with slight dust haze at some places at times.