‘Qatar Business’ Archives
Nokia aims to be leader in smartphone market
DOHA: Nokia and local partner Consolidated Gulf Company (CGC) has embarked on an aggressive campaign to fortify its leadership amid the tight competition in the local smartphone market. Nokia and CGC executives introduced its overall year-long business and product strategies with a showcase of its latest handsets including N9, E6 and C2 series [...]
Resala school holds awards ceremony
Al Resala Independent Secondary School for Girls honoured its business partners, job shadow hosts, and participating students at an awards ceremony, which was the culmination of a pilot project developed and conducted by Halimah Ali al-Qadi at the school during the last term of the 2010-11 school year. This pilot project contributes to the [...]
Qatar Airways touches down in Montreal
MONTREAL - There is no linkage between additional landing rights Qatar Airways is seeking in Canada and the Doha-based carrier’s oft-delayed purchase of CSeries aircraft from Montreal’s Bombardier Inc., airline CEO Akbar al-Baker told reporters Thursday. “We don’t (mix) commercial issues (with) issues that have got to do something with [...]
Dormant company gets RM5.8b LNG project
IPOH: The Perak DAP today lodged a report against the Barisan Nasional state government for misusing its power in awarding a RM5.8 billion project to a RM100 dormant company to import liquified natural gas (LNG) from Qatar. The project is located in Segari, Manjung. The report was lodged with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission [...]
Qatar shares rise to two-week high
Doha: Qatar's shares rose to the highest in more than two weeks on speculation second-quarter earnings will exceed estimates. Bahrain's measure also advanced. Commercial Bank of Qatar QSC, the country's second-biggest bank by assets, climbed 1.8 per cent. Industries Qatar QSC, the second-largest petrochemicals company in the Middle East, [...]
Qatar Airways announces partnership with New York’s JetBlue
DUBAI: Qatar Airways has announced the signing of a new inter-line agreement with New York-based JetBlue Airways to connect travellers between the two carriers' networks via New York's John F Kennedy International Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport. With this new agreement in place, customers will be able to purchase a single [...]
Bright future seen for e-magazines
DOHA, Qatar — With e-tablets such as the iPad finally tipping the balance in favor of electronic media, editors of science magazines are convinced that magazines would still be around – except that their print version would play second fiddle only to electronic variants. In a session titled “From Ink to Electrons: Managing the Science [...]
Eversendai wins new RM139mil Qatar job
PETALING JAYA: Eversendai Corp Bhd announced that it has secured a new contract in Qatar worth 165 million riyals (RM139mil), just one day before listing on Bursa Malaysia. The contract, awarded by its major client Qatar Petroleum, involves works for Phase-4A of the Nakilat Shipyard at Port Ras Laffan in Qatar. Eversendai managing director [...]
Qatar building boom bets on life after World Cup
As Qatar rushes to prepare for the 2022 World Cup, the tiny Gulf Arab state is spending billions to build stadiums, roads, bridges, apartments and hotels on a patch of desert jutting out into the Gulf's waters. Like cities hosting the Olympic Games, which face the risk of being left with unused venues after the athletes and spectators leave, [...]
Qafco to expand market in South Africa
DOHA: Qatar Fertiliser Company (Qafco) is set to increase its presence in the South African market by signing a major new agreement to supply ammonia to Omnia Group (Pty) Ltd of South Africa with more than 200,000 MT annually for five years firm and five years optional. The agreement was signed yesterday at Grand Hyatt Dubai by Qafco CEO, [...]
