Editor of WQ

  08 Apr 2018 - 8:27 The Peninsula DOHA: Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation “Kahramaa” has announced that it will close  its Industrial Area Service Center permanently from April 19. Customers can visit any of Kahramaa service centres at, Musheireb, Al Khor, Salwa Road, and the main branch at Al Hilal. Kahramaa service centres receive customers Sunday to Thursday from 7.30 am...

  08 Apr 2018 - 8:39 The Peninsula DOHA: All hospitals at the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) have seen a significant increase in number of patients from 2016 to 2017. All three general hospitals at HMC saw an increased number of outpatient visits with demand for Al Wakrah Hospital’s outpatient services increasing by 25 percent, the Cuban Hospital’s by 31 percent and Al...

  08 Apr 2018 - 8:53 Minister of State H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari delivering a lecture on ‘cultural diplomacy’ recently at Zagreb University, in Croatia. The Peninsula DOHA: Minister of State H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari has said that cultural diplomacy allows for the continual development of an honest pattern of ongoing dialogue with other cultures...

  08 Apr 2018 - 9:01 The Founding Dean of The College of Law and Public Policy, Professor Clinton W Francis, is joined by professors and administrators from CLPP as well as global energy experts at the HBKU event. The Peninsula Doha: The College of Law and Public Policy (CLPP) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University held a two-day workshop on public-private partnership approaches...

  08 Apr 2018 - 20:45 Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel celebrates with the trophy after winning the race REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah AFP Sakhir, Bahrain: Sebastian Vettel marked his 200th Formula One race with a thrilling and brilliantly-judged victory for Ferrari in Sunday's dramatic Bahrain Grand Prix. The four-time ex champion, on severely-worn tyres, came home narrowly ahead of Valtteri Bottas and the Finn's Mercedes team-mate Lewis...

  08 Apr 2018 - 20:55 Palestinian Journalists take part in a protest against the killing of fellow journalist Yasser Murtaja, near the Israel-Gaza border, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 8, 2018. AFP / Said Khatib By Fares Akram I Associated Press GAZA CITY:  Hundreds attended the funeral of a well-known Palestinian journalist in Gaza on Saturday who was...

  08 Apr 2018 - 20:48 "The resort to violence must stop," Fatou Bensouda said in a statement issued by the International Criminal Court, based in The Hague.(Reuters file photo) Reuters The Hague:  The world war crimes court's chief prosecutor Sunday called for an end to ongoing bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, warning that the court could try those who commit gross atrocities. "The...

  08 Apr 2018 - 17:25 The Peninsula Online Doha: Hamad International Airport (HIA) has announced that unattended vehicles parked in front of the airport will be towed away. This comes into effect from today (April 8, 2018)  onwards. The move comes in coordination with Ministry of Interior (MoI). Many people tend to leave their car in front of the departure and arrival...

  08 Apr 2018 - 15:53 Children look out of the window of a bus upon their arrival at the Abu al-Zindeen checkpoint near the northern Syrian town of al-Bab after Jaish al-Islam fighters and their families from the former rebel bastion's main town of Douma were evacuated from the last rebel-held pocket in Eastern Ghouta on April 3, 2018. AFP...

  03 Apr 2018 - 10:24 National Counter-terrorism Committee Chairman Maj Gen Abdulaziz Abdullah Al Ansari (right), presented a paper “The Process of Radicalisation in the Information Society Era”, that discussed the ways of protecting society through improving the life of the individual and society, at the 7th Conference of the International Association of Police Academies and Colleges (INTERPA) at Doha...

  27 Mar 2018 - 11:21 Star cast of the movie. Image: Facebook The Peninsula Pakistani movie Maan Jao Naa is set to hit the silver screens in Qatar on March 29. To be released by Qatar Cinema Film and Distribution Company, the movie is a light-hearted romantic comedy revolving around the institution of marriage in society. . Directed by Aabis Raza, the movie features...

  31 Mar 2018 - 18:26 REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Romanian computer science students take part in an internship fair on the campus of the Polytechnic University on March 17, 2017 in Bucharest. (AFP / Andrei Pungovschi) By Bob Salsberg & Angeliki Kastanis I Associated Press BOSTON:  Jonathan Garland's fascination with architecture started early: He spent much of his childhood designing Lego houses and gazing...

  01 Apr 2018 - 13:05 The Peninsula As part of completing the E-Ring Road and Najma Street Development Project, the Public Works Authority ‘Ashghal’ opened the pedestrian bridge on the E-Ring Road, located between Al Thumama Intersection and the Intersection of Al Matar Street with E-Ring Road. Eng. Saoud Al Tamimi, Roads Projects Department in Ashghal, stated that there is a continuous...

  01 Apr 2018 - 16:16 A man walks with his bicycle at a damaged site in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria March 30, 2018. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh By PHILIP ISSA | AP BEIRUT: A rebel faction trapped by Syrian government forces outside the capital agreed to evacuate to northern Syria on Sunday as talks continued over lifting the siege...