Doha 16 July 2017 (Gulf Times) Qatar will build a QR1.6bn food storage and processing facility at Hamad Port capable of supplying stockpile for three main commodities – rice, sugar, and edible oils, for 3mn people for two and a half years, it was announced on Sunday. Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed...

Islamabad 13 July 2017 (APP) President, Pakistan Economy Watch Dr Murtaza Mughal has said that China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a game changer project that would create over 7 million job opportunities in the country. Talking to Radio Pakistan, he said it is also an achievement that foreign investment in Pakistan through CPEC has...

Doha 12 July 2017 'We will be able to meet local demand of present 300 tons of daily fresh milk and other dairy needs by March/April of 2018', told by John Joseph Dore, Chief Executive Officer of Baladna Livestock. Dore said that presently local dairy houses are meeting about 15 % of daily need and...

Doha 11 July 2017 Total and Qatar Petroleum have inaugurated a new venture to develop the Gulf country's expansive offshore Al-Shaheen oil field for the next 25 years. The joint venture, named the North Oil Company, was formally inaugurated Tuesday in Qatar's capital, Doha by Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser AlThani, Prime Minister of State of...

Doha 11 July 2017 First batch of 165 Cows from 4,000 reported earlier in various media a month ago landed in Doha this evening by Qatar Airways Cargo flight. Through reliable sources, it has come to know that keeping in view the harsh weather of Qatar, newly arrived animals will be kept in specially built...

Istanbul, Turkey 10 July 2017 (ANI) U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson emphasized that strong Washington-Ankara ties are essential from security standpoint to economic opportunities, he was addressing today on the 2nd day of 22nd World Petroleum Conference which took off on Sunday in Istanbul. Tillerson said, "While we still have a lot of challenges...

'Signs of world economic and trade recovery have begun to emerge and the new round of industrial revolution has given people new hope. Economic globalization has become an irreversible trend', it was said by Li Keqiang, Prime Minister of China in his key address at Dalian, China on the occasion of Annual Meeting of the...

Doha, Qatar Milan, Italy 06 July 2017 RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) celebrated the 500th liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo delivery to its long term customer, Edison, under the Long Term Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) signed between Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company (II) and Edison in November 2003, for deliveries of 4.6 million tonnes...

Doha, Qatar 06 July 2017 (AlJazeera/Reuters) Three of the West's biggest energy corporations are lobbying Qatar to take part in a huge expansion of its gas production, handing Doha an unintended but timely boost in the Gulf dispute. The chief executives of ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell and France's Total all met Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim...

Dushanbe, Tajikistan 05 July 2017 (APP) Pakistan and Tajikistan Wednesday agreed on the need of exploring new avenues of cooperation in agriculture, education and culture sectors besides improving business-to-business and people-to-people ties. Pakistani Prime Minister who is in Tajikistan on a two-day official visit met his Tajik counterpart Qohir Rasulzoda here at the State Guest...