Tehran, 12 Dec. 2023 (QNA/IRNA) 9th Iran-Qatar Joint Economic Commission meeting held recently on December 9-11. The ceremony took place at the Iranian Energy Ministry building in Tehran last Monday. Qatar delegation was headed by Minister of Commerce and Industry Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Qassim Al-Thani, and Irani delegation was headed by Minister of...

Doha, 04 Dec. 2023 (Anadolu News/QNA) Türkiye and Qatar on Monday signed 12 cooperation agreements in various fields and the joint declaration of the 9th meeting of the Türkiye-Qatar Supreme Strategic Committee. Official News Agency of State of Qatar QNA reported that The Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani affirmed that the meeting of the...

Doha, Qatar, 04 Nov. 2023 QatarEnergy has announced the signing of a partnership agreement with China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) for the North Field South (NFS) expansion project. The two sides also signed a long-term sales and purchase agreement (SPA) for the delivery of 3 million tons per annum (MTPA) of LNG from the NFS project...

Kathmandu, Nepal, (Daily The Rising Nepal) By Ritu Raj Subedi Brautigam of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and Meg Rithmire of the Harvard Business School, jointly published an article in The Atlantic magazine and concluded that the debt-trap narrative was “a lie, and a powerful one.” “Our research shows that Chinese banks...

Doha, 30 Oct. 2023 (QT) By Ashraf Siddiqui China's per capita income in 1980 stood at $690. By 2022, it had skyrocketed to around $12,670 accompanied by a staggering Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $17.9 trillion, securing China’s position as the second largest economy in the world, trailing only the USA. China has evolved from...

Doha, 23 Oct. 2023 Investment Office of Presidency of the Republic of Turkiye to mark the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic held its 14th session of the “Türkiye Century Investment Reception” series in Qatar on Monday. The event was organised in collaboration with the Turkish Embassy in Doha and Qatari Businessman Association (QBA) to...

Beijing, 18 Oct. 2023 (Xinhua News) Belt and Road international cooperation has gotten off the ground, grown rapidly and produced fruitful outcomes over the past 10 years, Chinese President Xi Jinping said this morning in his Key-note speech at the opening of 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing today, Wednesday. President...

Doha, 09 Oct. 2023 QatarEnergy and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem) today announced that they have secured $4.4 billion financing for the Ras Laffan Petrochemicals project, a world scale integrated polymers complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. The senior debt financing package is comprised of commercial and Islamic facilities as well as Export...

Doha, 03 Oct. 2023 His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of State of Qatar, laid the foundation stone of the North Field expansion project, which will raise the State of Qatar's LNG production capacity from the current 77 million tons per annum (MTPA) to 126 MTPA by 2026. The project’s ground breaking...

Doha, 30 Sept. 2023 (QT) By Ashraf Siddiqui LIFE Pharma, one of the leading Qatari drugs distribution companies, has inked a distribution agreement with PharmEvo, a major state-of the-art pharmaceutical manufacturing company from Pakistan. Abdullah Majed Al Noaimi, chairman of the Board of Life Pharma and Haroon Qassim, managing director of PharmEvo, Pakistan, signed the...