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On December 2, 2010 the world woke up to the reality of a changing sporting dynamic exemplified by Qatar winning the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The stunning success came in Qatar’s first attempt, sending shockwaves across football’s traditional bastions and evoking awe and curiosity, besides triggering off a predictable maelstrom of […]
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Qatar Expo Milano 2015 Pavilion has won the Exhibitor Magazine award as the best international pavilion among 145 participant countries, after it got the highest number of individual votes in the people’s choice category, the Ministry of Economy and Commerce announced yesterday. The exhibition, which opened on May 1, concludes on October 31.
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A leading lighting expert with experience in illuminating major stadiums across the world said that the project at Khalifa International Stadium will be something completely unique. “We were just recently awarded the contract for state-of-the-art LED pitch lighting for Khalifa International Stadium. We have done this for Stamford Bridge Chelsea, PSV Eindhoven, Amsterdam Arena, STVV […]
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Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art won the “Best Emerging Cul- ture Destination” in the Middle East at the 2015 Leading Cul- ture Destinations Awards held in London this month. Dubbed as “The Oscars for Museums”, the prestigious awards scheme honours the world’s most visionary arts in- stitutions and emerging cultural hotspots. Leading Culture Destination […]
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Football’s ruling body FIFA yesterday confirmed the dates for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar while a news conference with its president Joseph Blatter was cancelled on short notice. The news conference, to be the first in two months for the outgoing Blatter, was cancelled five minutes before its planned start. Instead FIFA issued a statement on […]
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Msheireb Properties, a subsidiary of Qatar Foundation, has awarded Qatar-based Traffic Tech (Gulf) the contract for a “car parking management system” for the Msheireb Downtown Doha (MDD) project. The deal, signed by Msheireb Properties CEO Abdulla Hassan al-Mehshadi and Traffic Tech CEO Husam Musharbash, is seen as an “important operational milestone,” comprising the integration and future management of […]
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Qatar today officially launches one of its most “significant” labour reforms to guarantee migrant workers’ wages. The Wage Protection System (WPS) aims to ensure that migrant labourers, many working on 2022 World Cup-related projects, receive their pay on time. Under the new system, workers will be paid either twice a month or monthly, and the […]
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Siemens has won two contracts from Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) for the turnkey construction of three substations in Qatar and for the supply of air-insulated switchgears. The company will supply three 132/11kV substations as part of Phase II of the Qatar Power Transmission System expansion project, which has been devised to meet the […]
Read MoreThe Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Molsa) is set to launch a comprehensive campaign to ensure the compliance of companies with stipulations of the labour law, local Arabic daily Al Sharq has reported. The search campaign will focus on compliance with the revised working hours for summer – until August 31 – at outdoor […]
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Doha College secondary art students had the privilege of discussing their work with Qatar Museums’ chairperson HE Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who is also an alumna of Doha College, at a special viewing at the Al Waab campus on Tuesday. The work is part of the Doha College annual Art Exhibition […]
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