With Philippine Senator Manny Villar offering help to the 12 jobless Filipino workers stranded in Qatar, the hapless workers are in an upbeat mood.

The Qatar National Hotels (QNH) announced it plans to hire more than 40 Qataris to work in their hotels early next year as part of their Qatarisation programme.

Hamad Medical Corporation’s Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Unit of has helped in integrating many patients with disability into the society. Many Qataris and expats have found jobs here in Qatar and those who have returned to there own country have been able to be reemployed.

The weather in Qatar will be hot with slight dust haze at times.

Qtel will compensate customers if complaints against its products or services are found to be valid following an internal investigation, the company’s acting chief operating officer Waleed Mohamed al-Sayed said.

Motorists parking their vehicles at the five-storey parking lot behind the Ministry of Finance have described the place as unkempt and untidy.

Vodafone Qatar CEO Grahame Maher has suggested the appointment of an ombudsman to ensure ‘proper business practices’ in the country’s telecom sector.

A Labour Ministry official has said it is up to the discretion of employer’s to decide on minimum wage for workers.

A Doha criminal court has rejected a request made by an insurance company asking that it should not be held responsible for payment of blood money to the family of a cyclist who died in a car accident.

Residents of Ain Khalid say they are living in ‘absolute chaos’ for the past three years as internal roads of the locality are being used by motorists and lorry convoys to reach the Industrial Area.