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Ooredoo has reminded its customers to be alert against ongoing scams plaguing the industry, and offered advice on actions to take if fraud is suspected. In a statement yesterday, the company said “modern-day fraudsters employ ever-more inventive and sophisticated methods of attempting to steal information, and scams can often appear entirely legitimate”. Customers have reported receiving SMSes, WhatsApp messages, e-mails and...

Ahlibank has announced that Kholood and Mona bin Jassim, the bank’s customers at the Salwa branch and joint account holders, are the winners of the Al Rabeh Savings Scheme second draw winner for the QR1mn prize, for the month of June. The draw was conducted at Doha Festival City on Thursday in the presence of officials from the Ministry of...

The Economic and Cyber Crimes Combating Department at the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation, Ministry of Interior (MoI), has arrested four Asians on charges of being involved in fraudulent activities. Informing this on its Twitter page yesterday, the MoI said the accused persons used forged credit cards to make some electronic payments. The arrests were made after a search was carried out...

The chairman of Qatar’s National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) said yesterday that the Gulf crisis has reached the peak of escalation, increasing the worries and concerns of the Gulf peoples. HE Dr Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri stressed the need for deterrent measures against the blockading countries to compel them to stop the violations that have affected thousands of families and...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with Qatar - represented by the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), the Federal Republic of Germany (German Co-operation) and the Italian government, has launched a global network aimed at finding innovative ways to solve complex sustainable development problems. Qatar’s involvement is in line with its efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development...

The municipal authorities will launch a campaign this morning in different parts of Doha to spot and remove abandoned vehicles and enforce Law No 18 of 2017 on Public Hygiene. The campaign will be conducted jointly by Doha Municipality and the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME)’s Mechanical Equipment Department and Committee for Removing Abandoned Vehicles. The committee was formed in...

Qatar Charity (QC) has translated the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2019, the world’s most important annual report on monitoring internal displacement worldwide, in co-operation with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). In a statement, QC also announced the release of the Arabic version of the report for the first time during a...

Scientists have developed a cancer “vaccine” that can help trigger your immune system to attack cancer cells in your body, according to the results of a small but promising new study. The study, which was published in the journal Nature Medicine, investigated the results of the treatment in 11 patients with lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes and lymphatic system....

You may not have heard much of Jeff Williams, but he's Apple's super fixer, the man behind the success of the Apple Watch and, some say, the next CEO. But is he the best candidate to write Cupertino's next design chapter? Compare Wikipedia entries for Jony Ive – Apple's outgoing chief design officer – and his de facto successor Jeff...

Xbox head Phil Spencer on Project Scarlett, xCloud and why console gaming won't be totally replaced by the cloud Holistic probably isn't the first word that comes to mind when you consider the gaming industry. It's a world notorious for going after the hot new thing, discarding the past, and constantly chasing thrills. Yet when it comes to the next...

APT10 hackers penetrated enterprise cloud services to steal intellectual property for years, YouTube is tackling its toxic recommendation system with new user controls APT10 hackers penetrated enterprise cloud services to steal intellectual property A major Reuters investigation has revealed evidence that the world's biggest enterprise cloud service providers were penetrated by the Chinese government linked APT10 hacking group at least as far back...

Firefox Preview is Mozilla's attempt to rebuild its Android web browser. The group doesn't want a web where Google is in complete control Google is under siege. Chrome is the world's dominant browser but its rivals are fighting against the firm's heavy data collecting habits. Now Firefox is taking the battle to Google's front lawn: Android. Starting from today the Mozilla...

The UK biometrics commissioner says the MoD has no lawful authority to access police and immigration fingerprint databases, Five Eyes spies planted malware inside Yandex MoD is accessing police fingerprint databases without legal authority The Ministry of Defence has been unlawfully comparing fingerprints it takes during overseas military operations with UK police and immigration databases without any legal right to do...

For decades, research into Alzheimer's has made slow progress, but now a mother and daughter team think they have finally found a solution – a vaccine that could inoculate potential sufferers n the autumn of 2010, Mei Mei Hu, a management consultant for McKinsey in New York, received an unexpected invitation from her mother, Chang Yi Wang, asking her to...