‘Exhibitions / Events in Qatar’ Archives
Carrefour announces Summer Mania winners
DOHA: Carrefour Qatar announced the winners of the Summer Mania promotion which awarded four lucky raffle entrants with a Nissan Armada, the biggest, most spacious SUV offered by the car maker. The winners are Ahmad Mohammed Ibrahim, Edison Ramirez, Jovy Hermoso and Abdallah Adel Al Kaldy. The Promotion which ran from June 30 to July 27 [...]
MISS USA, Rima Fakih in Doha
Miss USA 2010, Rima Fakih, will make her first official visit to the Middle East at the second annual Made in the USA – Qatar 2010 exhibition. Fakih will spend three days in Qatar, during which she will participate at the Made in the USA Exhibition, and tour the country, meeting with dignitaries and the community. Fakih is the first [...]
Family hours on the weekend at Doha Summer Fun Park
The Organizing Committee of the Doha Summer Fun Park has announced that family-only hours will be designated on Thursdays and Fridays from 3pm until 9pm. All visitors are welcome after 9pm until closing on the weekends. The new schedule will be implemented starting Thursday, 5 August. The number of visitors to the Doha Summer Fun Park, up [...]
Family hours on the weekend at Doha Summer Fun Park
The Organizing Committee of the Doha Summer Fun Park has announced that family-only hours will be designated on Thursdays and Fridays from 3pm until 9pm. All visitors are welcome after 9pm until closing on the weekends. The new schedule will be implemented starting Thursday, 5 August. The number of visitors to the Doha Summer Fun Park, up [...]
Dohaland and Premier Inn sign joint venture agreement
Dohaland and Premier Inn, the pioneering limited service hotel operator, today announced that they have signed a Joint Venture Agreement to introduce Premier Inn's "value hotel model" to Qatar. The first project announced under the Joint Venture Agreement will be a 200 room hotel to be built at the Doha Education City, an area at the outskirts [...]
AFC chief backs Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid
Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam said Wednesday he would vote for Qatar to host the World Cup in 2022. FIFA's 24 executives will choose who hosts the 2018 and 2022 World Cup events on December 2 in Zurich. Underlining his desire to see the tournament return to Asia for a second time, the AFC head said his vote [...]
President attends ceremony on Day of Education
President Ali Abdullah Saleh attended on Saturday a ceremony on Day of Education and rewarding exemplary graduates from different Yemeni universities. In the opening session of the ceremony, president Saleh highlighted efforts of the ministry of higher education and leaderships of Yemeni universities in qualifying Yemeni students, welcoming [...]
Summer Fun Park a hit with families
DOHA: Ten days after it opened, the Doha Summer Fun Park is proving to be the leisure destination for families in Qatar, recording 40,000 visitors on the first seven days, according to the Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA). The visitors are not just from Qatar but also from neighbouring countries such as Saudi Arabia, said QTA Chairman Ahmed Al [...]
Doha Bank celebrates fourth anniversary of Singapore operation
Doha: Doha Bank celebrated the fourth Anniversary of its Representative Office in Singapore at the Ritz Carlton Singapore yesterday. As part of its celebration, Doha Bank conducted a knowledge sharing session on “GCC Economies and Growth opportunities”. The event was presided over by Rashid bin Ali Hassan Al Khatar, Ambassador of Qatar, as [...]
UDC to sponsor CSR conference in September
United Development Company (UDC) will be the diamond sponsor of the second edition of Corporate Social Responsibility conference to be held in Doha in September. The conference, organised by the Ministry of Business and Trade, will examine the standards endorsed by the United Nations and aims to lay the necessary foundations for applying the [...]
