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Megapolis soft-opens to praise from the public at Pearl-Qatar
All photos by Baba Tamim A new family entertainment center at the Pearl-Qatar has finally soft-opened to the public. Though it is nearly a year behind schedule, Megapolis was worth the wait, according...
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Wafi Gourmet closed for two weeks for misleading customers about fish
MECWafi Gourmet closure Authorities have temporarily shut popular Lebanese restaurant Wafi Gourmet in Landmark Mall for selling Samman fish as the pricier hammour, Qatar’s Ministry of Economy and...
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More than 5,000 calls to 999 made each day in Qatar in 2015
HMCMajor incident response vehicles Hamad Medical Corp. (HMC) has launched a fleet of vehicles that can be set up as temporary emergency centers in the event of a major incident. The moves comes as...
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Qatar opens new sewage treatment plant as it ups wastewater usage
AshghalDoha North Sewage Treatment Works plant A new QR3.63 billion sewage treatment plant in Umm Salal Ali has come online, processing up to 245,000 cubic meters of sewage per day. The Doha North...
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MOI: Crime (keeps) decreasing in Qatar
Holly/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. Despite Qatar’s rapidly growing population, the number of crimes recorded by officers across the country have fallen dramatically in recent years, a...
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Report: Qatar improving ability to retain talented expats
Though many residents don’t consider Qatar their long-term home, the country is doing a better job of enticing skilled expats to stick around, a report released earlier this year has found. French...
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Qatar International Food Festival to be held from March 22-28
Osama Saeed/Flickr2015 QIFF The annual Qatar International Food Festival (QIFF) will return this spring with a longer running time, events across several venues and a focus on Chinese cuisine,...
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Tunneling for Doha Metro now 77 percent complete, says Qatar Rail
Qatar RailA Doha Metro tunnel boring machine “breaks through” and reaches the Doha Exhibition and Conference Center station site. Work on the Doha Metro has reached another milestone after a tunnel...
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Report: Qatar committee audits QR8 billion in Seha payments
Qatar’s Audit Bureau is poring over some QR8 billion in invoices incurred by the National Health Insurance Co. (Seha), which was suspended on Dec. 31, Al Raya reports. Patients and providers have been...
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Expect traffic diversions as Men’s Tour of Qatar opens today
Sorin Furcoi/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. Some of the world’s top cyclists including Mark Cavendish, Alexander Kristoff and Greg Van Avermaet will be competing in this year’s Tour of...
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Study: Qatar top owner of high-end London skyscrapers
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is the largest single owner of London’s most expensive commercial towers, a new study has found. The Qatar Investment Authority owns 28 percent of the 15 most valuable...
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Shrek the Musical to premiere in Qatar on March 9
Premium EventsShrek the Musical Shrek the Musical will launch its Middle East debut win Doha when it opens for an 11-day run next month, organizers have said. The stage version of the popular 2001...
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“Al Jazeera has to make a better fist of the situation, stop living solely in...
Osama Saeed, former global head of communications at the channel, in a new op-ed in the Guardian titled, “What went wrong with Al Jazeera – and how can it be fixed?” (The post “Al Jazeera has to make...
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Some 40 percent of Qatar students miss first day back at school
MoI/FacebookPhoto for illustrative purposes only As a new school term begins, Qatar’s education minister has pledged to take a tougher stance against poor performance, cheating and absenteeism in the...
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Healthy wishes to all on Qatar’s National Sport Day
On behalf of the Doha News team, we wish you all a happy and healthy National Sport Day. From Katara & The Pearl to Aspire and Education City, dozens of hotel gyms, lots of sports clubs, and so...
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“I don’t find it strange that a rider wants to freshen up before he goes to...
Cycling coach Patrick Lefevere, reacting in an interview with Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad to accusations by the Qatar Cycling Federation that his team was excluded from this year’s Tour of Qatar...
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Official: Qatar still determined to host Summer Olympics
Shawn Carpenter/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. After scrapping plans to bid on hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics, Qatar officials have started musing about bringing the world’s largest...
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Thousands head outdoors to enjoy Qatar National Sport Day 2016
All photos of Aspire Zone activities by Baba Tamim Thousands of people thronged to the Aspire Zone and other hotspots around Qatar to mark the fifth annual National Sport Day. Windy weather aside,...
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Pakistan Prime Minister to arrive in Qatar today for two-day visit
UN/FlickrPakistani PM Nawaz Sharif Qatar’s Emir and other senior officials will meet with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan this week to discuss a multi-billion dollar LNG deal, among other...
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Tour of Qatar course design questioned following crash
Paumer Kare Dhelie Thorstad / Qatar Cycling FederationStage 2 of the 2016 Tour of Qatar. A crash that left a Tour of Qatar cyclist with a broken collarbone this week has prompted calls for race...
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