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  07 May 2018 - 10:49 A May 3 picture of the Al Wakrah Stadium shared on twitter. The Peninsula Doha: Main contractor works at Al Wakrah and Al Bayt Stadiums will be completed in 2018 while Qatar Foundation and Al Rayyan Stadiums will reach the same milestone in 2019. The Supreme Committee currently has over 25,000 workers engaged on eight stadium sites and...

  07 May 2018 - 10:57 File picture of the Qatar skyline used for representation. Baher Amin | The Peninsula The Peninsula DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce (MEC) said yesterday that 2,295 new companies were registered in April 2018. According to the business process report, the number of new major business records reached 1,703 while the number of new sub-registries reached...

  07 May 2018 - 10:57 File picture of Vice-Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation, H E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani QNA London: Vice-Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation, H E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani, said that the State of Qatar is striving to achieve self-sufficiency. H E Sheikha Hind said in remarks carried by ‘The Guardian’ that Qatar’s policy...

  07 May 2018 - 11:18 Misfer Hamad Al Shahwani, Director of Development Projects at QFFD, and Rashid Saad Al Mohannadi, Director of Relief and International Development at QRCS, exchanging the signed documents. The Peninsula DOHA: Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) and Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) have signed an agreement to finance the projects worth $8m to address the humanitarian and...

21 Apr 2018 - 14:18 Alaskan illuminations: I went in winter to see northern lights, I saw much more in daytime A heated walkway leads to the steaming, geothermal waters at Chena Hot Springs Resort in Fairbanks, Alaska. Washington Post photo by Katherine Frey. By Andrea Sachs | The Washington Post Where were they? The hour was closer to midnight than noon, and the...

  04 May 2018 - 20:12 A group of Palestinian, dressed as Na'vi race in the movie Avatar, stage a demonstration to protest Israeli violations against Palestinians, within the "Great March of Return" near Gaza-Israel border in Khan Yunis, Gaza on May 04, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib - Anadolu Agency) AFP Gaza City, Palestinian Territories: Dozens of Palestinians were wounded by gunfire on...

  29 Apr 2018 - 17:07 A picture taken on April 29, 2018, during a government guided tour in Damascus' southern al-Qadam neighbourhood, shows a Syrian army tank parked in a street during regime shelling targeting Islamic State (IS) group positions in Yarmuk, a Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of the capital. AFP / LOUAI BESHARA By Suleiman Al-Khalidi | Reuters AMMAN:...

  20 Jan 2018 - 8:07 AFP Los Angeles: Reigning US Open champion Brooks Koepka said Friday he'll be sidelined 10 weeks with a partially torn wrist tendon but hopes to be back for the Masters in April. "I am frustrated that I will now not be able to play my intended schedule," Koepka said in a statement. "But I am confident in my...

  04 Apr 2018 - 18:32 A chef cooks a pot of chicken rendang at a restaurant in Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia April 4, 2018. Reuters Reuters KUALA LUMPUR:  A British cooking show has sparked a lively debate across Southeast Asian over whether the widely popular chicken rendang dish should ever be crispy and where it originates from. Malaysian-born Zaleha Kadir Olpin served the spicy...

  21 Mar 2018 - 15:15 Samosas being fried at the Delhi Bakery. All pics: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula By Anisha Bijukumar | The Peninsula Online Ever heard of Delhi Bakery? Well, in spite of being in Qatar for many years, I had not heard of the 20-year-old bakery, which serves mouthwatering Indian snacks and sweets, until recently. It was an incidental chat...

  23 Apr 2018 - 12:55 Why are you still peeling all those vegetables? (Photo by Stacy Zarin Goldberg for The Washington Post) By Becky Krystal / The Washington Post There are certain vegetables we have a reflexive instinct to peel: carrots, parsnips, potatoes, beets. Anything that grows in the ground, really. Especially when there's visible dirt on the vegetables when you buy...

  28 Apr 2018 - 11:49 Image of a LED street light used for representation purposes only. IANS London, Reigniting the debate over exposure to the "blue light" emitted by outdoor LED screens and heightened risk of cancer, an international team of researchers have concluded that there is a "strong link" between the two. To reach this conclusion, the researchers from University of Exeter...

  02 May 2018 - 19:45 A monitor shows the image of a breast cancer at a centre run by the "Reto" Group for Full Recovery of Breast Cancer in Mexico City October 18, 2012. Reuters/Edgard Garrido By Estelle Shirbon I Reuters LONDON:  As many as 270 women in England may have died prematurely of breast cancer because of an IT failure that...

  05 May 2018 - 0:37 The Peninsula Doha: The renovation of Khalifa International Stadium has transformed the iconic venue into one of the most technologically advanced stadiums in the world. The Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS) certified stadium has LED lighting, digital floodlights and air-conditioning technology that will provide optimal conditions for athletes, spectators, officials and media. Working with bespoke light and stage...