DOHA: Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) will conduct its annual Aquatics Championship at Al Arabi Sports Club swimming pool on August 31. The one-day...
DOHA: Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) will conduct its annual Aquatics Championship at Al Arabi Sports Club swimming pool on August 31. The one-day...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia-based International Islamic Liquidity Management Corp (IILM) will issue its long-awaited sukuk programme worth $490 million this month, offering tenors of...
JERUSALEM: Boosting exports and investments needs to be the main priority to strengthen Israel's economy, Bank of Israel Governor nominee Leo Leiderman said...
DUBAI: The Saudi stock exchange, Tadawul, has appointed Adel Saleh al-Ghamdi as its chief executive, replacing Abdullah Alsuweilmy, the bourse said in a...
KATHMANDU: Nepal on Thursday banned the sale of chicken after health workers found cases of bird flu at several poultry farms on the...
MOSCOW: Over 1,000 illegal Vietnamese migrants have been detained in a large-scale police operation in the Russian capital, the Interior Ministry's Moscow department...
TOKYO: Struggling Japanese electronics giant Sharp said Thursday it shrunk its net loss between April and June, while returning to the black at...
Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Thursday by Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks jumped 2.47 percent Thursday after the US Federal Reserve kept its monetary easing stance intact, while investors kept a close...
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter is under increasing pressure from governments around the world to release user's private information, with requests rising 40 percent in...
DUBAI: Barwa Real Estate, the struggling Qatari property firm which received $7.1 billion in financial support from the state in June, posted a...
LONDON: Britain's state-run health service is to spend 250 million pounds or $382 million on two proton beam cancer therapy centres, offering patients...
SYDNEY, New South Wales: A major research aquarium able to simulate ocean warming and carry out key studies on the deadly crown-of-thorns starfish...
DHAKA: Bangladeshi security forces have killed at least 150 protesters since February, using excessive force during demonstrations against war crime trials for top...
TOKYO: Sony's board is likely to reject a US hedge fund's proposal to spin off part of its profitable entertainment arm, a report...
LAS VEGAS: Apple Inc's next software update for its iPhones and iPads will fix a security flaw that allows hackers to engage in...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian economy is set to continue to expand in 2013 and 2014 albeit with a slight moderation in growth, said...
WELLINGTON: The parents of New Zealand triplets who died in a Qatari shopping mall fire last year announced on Thursday that they have...
