To offset skyrocketing food prices and a possible food crisis in the country, Qatar is planning to invest in a big way in foreign farmland.

An insufficient supply of well-educated and well-trained nationals is widely acknowledged to be among factors hampering the ‘Qatarisation’ process in the country.

Qatar has ranked 41st overall out of 118 countries in ‘The Enabling Trade Index 2008' (ETI) released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) yesterday.

Qatar National Bank (QNB) has launched EAZYmobile, the first mobile banking service in Qatar.

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.

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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).