Business

Qatar’s trade surplus maintains rising trend 05 Jul 2022 - 08:48 am

Qatar's trade surplus has maintained growing trend in the first five months of the current year, driven by a consistent rise in exports....

Qatari startup Rimads wins InsurHack MENA 2022 05 Jul 2022 - 08:47 am

Doha: Qatari startup Rimads has won the InsurHack MENA 2022 competition for its healthcare solution Avey, at the inaugural hackathon event for the...

Qatari businessmen interested to invest in Vietnam 05 Jul 2022 - 08:45 am

Doha: Mohamed bin Ahmed Twar Al Kuwari, First Vice-Chairman of the Qatar Chamber, received yesterday, Pham Quang Hieu, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of...

Lebanon recovery plan held up by changes from PM: Top finance lawmaker 04 Jul 2022 - 05:12 pm

BEIRUT: Lebanon's top finance lawmaker said prime minister designate Najib Mikati had verbally proposed "very serious" changes to a recently-adopted plan to revamp...

Inflation in Turkey increases by 4.95% in June 04 Jul 2022 - 02:45 pm

Consumer price index in the Turkish markets increased in June by 4.95 percent on a monthly basis, compared to May. According to the...

Asian spot LNG prices continue to rise 04 Jul 2022 - 08:26 am

Doha: For the week, Brent lost 1.3%, while WTI rose 0.8%. For June, both benchmarks had ended the month lower for the first...

Flagship POCO F4 and POCO X4 GT debut with powerhouse chipsets 04 Jul 2022 - 08:24 am

Doha: POCO, a popular technology brand among the world’s young techies, announced the launch of POCO F4 and POCO X4 GT in Qatar...

Ooredoo enhances customer experience with new solutions in AI, fraud protection 04 Jul 2022 - 08:15 am

Doha: To enhance customer experience and service quality, Ooredoo Group has announced a joint agreement with international communications company BICS to create an...

Overall office supply space in Doha reaches 5.7mn sqm 04 Jul 2022 - 08:12 am

Qatar’s overall office stock has increased to approximately 5.7 million square metres (sqm) Gross Leasable Area (GLA) as of first quarter (Q1) of...

QNB launches WeChat Pay and AliPay+ in Qatar 04 Jul 2022 - 08:10 am

Doha: QNB, the largest financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, has announced the launch of WeChat Pay and AliPay+ to its...

Second phase of Tarsheed programme saved more than QR 4 billion: Minister 03 Jul 2022 - 05:02 pm

Doha: Minister of State for Energy Affairs HE Eng Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi revealed that the second phase of the National Program...

Kuwait Bourse closes lower 03 Jul 2022 - 01:45 pm

Kuwait Bourse closed down on Monday as the All Share Index lost 15.22 points to reach 7,162.7 points, a decrease of 0.21 percent....

Türkiye's Galatasaray eyes Kuwait Airways sponsorship deal 03 Jul 2022 - 11:23 am

Turkish sports club Galatasaray is in talks to get Kuwait Airways as a sponsor. If signed, an agreement would be the first such...

QCB: 25,000 local transactions over QR230m executed 03 Jul 2022 - 08:29 am

Doha: The Qatar Central Bank (QCB) announced yesterday that more than 25,000 local transactions, worth more than QR230m, were executed within the first...

Ezdan Real Estate takes wraps off 'Hayat Al Wakra' compound as part of residential units hitting market in 2022 03 Jul 2022 - 08:27 am

Doha: Hot on the heels of announcing the opening of Murooj Al Wakra compound, Ezdan Real Estate Company announced the opening of Hayat...

Qatar First Bank acquires Gateway Plaza Building in the US 03 Jul 2022 - 08:22 am

The acquisition is the Bank’s eleventh Shari’a compliant real estate investment in the US, located in Richmond, Virginia and reaffirms its strategic direction...

Persistently high food prices add to pressure to normalise interest rates 03 Jul 2022 - 08:18 am

Doha: The world is dealing with severe stagflation, with decade-high inflation and slowing economic growth in most major advanced economies. Surging food prices...