Business / Qatar Business

Blockchain can transform financial sector: Report 25 Oct 2016 - 01:02 am

DOHA: Blockchain technologies have the potential to revolutionise the rapidly growing financial services sector in Qatar and the broader GCC region, according to...

Malaysian minister visits Doha 25 Oct 2016 - 01:01 am

The Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry, Dato Mustapha Mohamed (right), Ambassador of Malaysia to Qatar, Ahmed Jazri Mohamed Johar (second left),...

Qatar leads region’s outbound M&A activity 25 Oct 2016 - 01:00 am

DOHA: Qatar has led the Middle Eastern region both in terms of outbound M&A activity and debt issuance during the first nine months...

Axco debuts in Mena market 25 Oct 2016 - 12:58 am

DOHA: Axco Insurance Information Services (Axco), the world’s leading provider of business intelligence and information services to the insurance industry, yesterday announced its...

QIMC’s 9-month net profit at QR163m 25 Oct 2016 - 12:56 am

DOHA: Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company (QIMC) has posted a net profit of QR163m for the first nine months of this year, against QR135...

Oil market closest to rebalancing: Dr Al Sada 24 Oct 2016 - 04:12 am

DOHA: HE Dr. Mohammad bin Saleh Al Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, has stated that the World oil market was currently closest...

IQ posts QR2.7bn net profit 24 Oct 2016 - 04:11 am

DOHA: Industries Qatar, one of the region’s industrial giants with interests in the production of a wide range of petrochemical, fertiliser and steel...

Qatar’s GDP grows 2.5% in second quarter this year 24 Oct 2016 - 04:09 am

DOHA: Qatar’s quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at constant prices rose 2.5 percent in the second quarter of 2016 compared to the first...

Gulf Air increases Riyadh flights to 5 daily 24 Oct 2016 - 04:06 am

DOHA: Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, yesterday announced the upcoming increase of its flights to and from the Saudi capital city...

Mannai’s 9-month net profit at QR343m 24 Oct 2016 - 04:04 am

DOHA: Mannai Corporation Group results for the third quarter of 2016 (Q3, 16) improved significantly to QR123m net profit, compared to QR103m for...

GBCQ meeting highlights QFC role 24 Oct 2016 - 04:04 am

DOHA: The German Business Council Qatar (GBCQ) organized a meeting at the InterContinental Doha The City in the presence of the German Ambassador...

QLC’s Rising Leaders engage with Japan firms 24 Oct 2016 - 04:02 am

DOHA: Qatar Leadership Centre’s (QLC) Rising Leaders engaged in a knowledge transfer exchange with professionals at prominent Japanese multinational companies. Participants visited the...

GCC liquidity crunch to further weigh on subdued economic growth 24 Oct 2016 - 04:00 am

DOHA: Tightening liquidity will continue to pose imminent challenges to GCC economies according to the latest CFA member societies survey, which gauged the...

NMC Health to enter Qatar 24 Oct 2016 - 03:58 am

ABU DHABI: United Arab Emirates-based hospital operator NMC Health plans to enter Qatar and Oman before year-end and expand in Saudi Arabia, the...

Fish shop shut for violation 24 Oct 2016 - 03:44 am

DOHA: Al Wakra Municipality has shut down a fish shop in a supermarket ten days after inspectors found it selling fish unfit for...

Al Jaltah Park to be closed today 24 Oct 2016 - 03:43 am

DOHA: Al Khor and Al Dakhira Municipality has announced that Al Jaltah Park will be closed today for spraying. It will reopen tomorrow....

46 QU students participate in white coat ceremony 24 Oct 2016 - 03:41 am

DOHA: A group of 46 first-year General Medicine students took the College of Medicine Students’ Oath and donned the symbolic white coat in...

QRCS provides non-food aid to Sudan flash flood victims 24 Oct 2016 - 03:36 am

Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has completed a relief intervention for the victims of flash floods in Hameshkorieb, Kassala Province, eastern Sudan,...