Editor of WQ

The Health Control Section of the Doha Municipality has identified a number of food facilities and outlets keeping expired food products during its inspection campaign. A bakery at Al Markhiya Area had reportedly kept expired meat products, while another bakery at Musherib Area was using expired food ingredients to prepare pastries and sweets. A grocery at Madinat Khalifa South was also...

Taxi services in some of the newly developed residential areas in and around Doha are scarce and residents are complaining that it is often very difficult to get a taxi on time, particularly during peak hours. Cab drivers are reportedly avoiding going into these localities, thereby forcing the residents to opt for costlier alternatives such as ‘limousines’. With the entry of...

With authorities stepping up their efforts to make Qatar’s roads safer for everyone by the installation of state of art radar systems, the number of traffic violators penalised has gone up substantially. According to the figures released by the Ministry of Development, Planning and Statistics for the month of December 2016, the number of violations caught by radars in the...

Qatar Fuel Company (Woqod) has extended until mid-2017 its exchange offer, to replace the metal LPG cylinders with the lightweight Shafaf cylinders, it was announced on Tuesday. The offer allows customers to exchange a metal gas cylinder for QR265 instead of QR365, the cost of a new Shafaf cylinder. Customers can exchange their metal cylinders with Shafaf at any Woqod...

2017 is just 3 days old, hope you scatter joy and happiness wherever you go all 362 days of the upcoming year. New Year gives us the perfect chance to start something new and fresh and that’s why we are here with you to give you something informative and very very important. Thousands of Job hunters will be looking for new...

Change has indeed come! Last August 8, 2016, POEA issued a resolution stating that some groups of OFWS are already exempted from securing the OEC starting September 15. These are vacationing OFWs who will return to the same employer and job site and OFWs who were hired through the POEA Government Placement Board (GBP). It has to be emphasized that OFWs...

Two special travellers from Nepal, who have arrived in Qatar riding bicycles, visited the Asian Town. The duo started their journey in 2004. One of them, Lok Bandhu Karki, who hails from Lumbini in the higher altitude of the Himalayan country said their journey ‘World Peace Tour 2004-2017’ is for spreading the message of permanent peace, harmony and humanity...

More e-gates at the Hamad International Airport (HIA) will become necessary with the facility becoming popular among residents, Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar al-Baker has said. He said the Ministry of Interior was investing heavily into “constantly upgrading the (e-gates) system.” “It will become more and more efficient and get much faster in processing the user’s data,” al-Baker told Gulf...

The grand launch of Shop Qatar would witness plethora of domestic and foreign visitors on January 7, that would include range of entertainment and shopping activities. Additionally, the Qatari stand-up comedian Hamad al-Amari would also be seen entertaining spectators and giving a preview of the winter edition of the Doha Comedy Festival scheduled from February 2 to 4, in the...

A few amendments to the Law No 21 of 2015 were issued by the Emir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in the form of Law No. 21 of 2015 meant for the regulation of entry, exit and the residence of expats. The law would come into effect a day after its publication in the official gazette, Qatar News...

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani issued the following decrees yesterday: Decree No 1 of 2017, ratifying a memorandum of understanding in the field of veterinary health and livestock production between Qatar’s ministry of municipality and environment and Georgia’s ministry of agriculture, which was signed in Doha on March 28, 2016. 2. Decree No 2 of 2017, ratifying...

The Ambassador of Peace and Counter-Terrorism Organization of the African Arab Unity Envoy Dr. Mohammad Jassim Al-Medairis said he is shocked to hear that a proposal has been submitted to deport one million expatriates from Kuwait, reports Arab Times daily. He pointed out the deportation if carried out will be a disgrace to Kuwait and will negatively affect its reputation...

An Indian man who murdered his French wife before chopping up her body and hiding it in a fridge three years ago was jailed for life on Thursday, police said. Girish Pote, 38, was found guilty on Wednesday of killing 33-year-old Madhuwanti Pathak on Dec 3, 2013 because she wanted to leave India to return to France, where she was...

If a contract is revoked by the worker for reasons other than those specified in article 121, he will be required to compensate the employer for any prejudice the latter sustains as a result. No ban if you finish 2 years of employment I have been working at a medical centre as an insurance clerk for the last three years. After...