Doha 27 April 2017 Emir Cup 2017 will be played on 19 May 2017 at Khalifa Int'l Stadium Doha with a new look, new technologies & a new legacy. Expatriate communities living in Qatar in collaboration with Community Out-reaching Department of Supreme Committee will be organising a colorful Family Festival before the start of the...

Istanbul 27 April 2017 (MOE&I/Petra) Dr. Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, State of Qatar led the delegation of the State of Qatar to the Eighth Atlantic Council Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey on 27 and 28 April. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered a speech on the second day of...

Doha, Qatar 26 April 2017 (MOI PR) Qatar has topped in implementing civil aviation security standards, according to official results released by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). This was announced during a press conference held at Hamad International Airport on Wednesday, 26 April 2017. Abdullah bin Nasser Turki Al-Subaiei, Chairman of Qatar Aviation Authority, Brig....

Riyadh 26 April 2017 (QNA) Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani met here with the Custodian of the Two Holy Masajid King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, at the Erga Palace in Riyadh, this evening. During the meeting, they reviewed strong bilateral brotherly relations and exchanged views on a number of...

Seoul 26 Apr 2017 (Yahoo/Reuters) The U.S. military moved parts of an anti-missile defense system to a deployment site in South Korea on Wednesday amid heightened tensions over North Korea's missile and nuclear weapons programs, triggering protests from villagers and China. The top U.S. commander in the Asia-Pacific, Admiral Harry Harris, told the U.S. Congress...

Doha 26 April 2017 (NHRC) A group of students from Al-Iman Secondary School for Girls visited today offices of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) today on Wednesday. On their visit, they were given two lectures on "Historical Development of National Human Rights Institutions" and "Library of the National Human Rights Commission". Jaber Al-Huwail in...

Doha 26 April 2017 (NHRC) Sultan Bin Hassan Al-Jamali, Executive Director, The Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions participated in the consultations of the High Commissioner for Human Rights with the regional stakeholders held today in Beirut to determine the strategic direction of the Office of the High Commissioner from 2018 to 2021. Sultan...

Dubai, UAE 26 Apr 2017 (QR) Qatar Airways plans to introduce a fifth daily non-stop service from Doha to Bangkok from 1st June 2017. The increased frequency, along with its double-daily Phuket flights and the five-month-old Krabi operations (four flights a week), will take the number of weekly Qatar Airways departures from Thailand to Doha...

Doha 25 April 2017 Ewa Polano, Ambassador of Sweden to Qatar announced today that a number of MOUs were in pipe line to be signed at the forthcoming meetings in Stockholm between Qatar and Sweden. She was addressing a press conference this afternoon on the occasion of Sweden National Day celebrations. Ambassador told that among...

Doha 25 Apr 2017 Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, Minister of Transport and Communications opened 4 days long 'Gulf Region Education Assistive Technology Conference (GREAT) 2017 at the Qatar National Convention Center. Present on the were Dr Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali Al Hammadi, Minister of Education and Higher Education, David Dikter, CEO ATIA, US and...