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Mallory Szczepanski Editorial Director, Waste360 The biggest economic opportunity in the history of the planet is figuring out how to finance the transition to a zero waste future, according to Terry Tamminen, CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and co-founder of the Planet Pledge Fund. “Investing in converting waste to valuable materials is of interest to investors because of climate change, tremendous pressure...

  29 Jan 2018 - 10:10 The Peninsula DOHA: The Public Works Authority ‘Ashghal’ has announced that it will close the Northern Service Road heading to Simsima on Umm Birka Interchange tomorrow for a period of 60 days, in coordination with the General Directorate of Traffic. During the closure period, traffic heading to Simsima and North Road via the Northern Service Road on...

  29 Jan 2018 - 8:47 The Peninsula DOHA: Prominent hypermarket group in Doha Safari’s popular promotion Biryani & Kebab Fest in the bakery & hot food section and Meat Festival in the butchery section has begun yesterday. In the fest, customers can experience the wide varieties of biryanis & kebab which is soothing to the taste buds. More than 50 varieties of...

  29 Jan 2018 - 8:52 The Speaker of the Advisory Council H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud with Indonesian Deputy Speaker of the House of Representative, Dr Fadli Zon and his accompanying delegation and other Qatari officials, during a ceremony. The Peninsula Doha: Indonesian Deputy Speaker of the House of Representative, Dr Fadli Zon and his accompanying delegation met...

  29 Jan 2018 - 10:13 QNA Doha: Qatar Chamber (QC) officials held a meeting yesterday with a 10-businessmen Turkish delegation from Turkey headed by Zakaria Aslan board of Great National Association, which is currently visiting Doha. The meeting discussed ways to enhance trade co-operation and exchange as well as joint ventures between both countries businessmen. Addressing the meeting, Rashid bin Hamad Al Athba,...

  29 Jan 2018 - 9:04 Participants and officials during the training organised by Qatar Foundation For Rehabilitation Of Special Needs. The Peninsula DOHA: The Qatar Foundation For Rehabilitation Of Special Needs (QSRSN) organised a training course under the title “Art and skill in learning sign language”. The course was presented by a number of experts and specialists. The course dealt with basic skills...

  29 Jan 2018 - 10:16 The Peninsula Doha: The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the annual art competition for schoolchildren to mark the World Health Day 2018.  The competition held on April 7 every year to commemorate its founding in 1948. This year’s competition will focus on comprehensive health coverage under the theme “Health for All”. The competition is open for...

  29 Jan 2018 - 8:58 A jewellery set created by Qatari designer Sara Al Hammadi. By Raynald C Rivera | The Peninsula Doha: Up-and-coming Qatari designers are benefitting in a big way from the Young Qatari Designers (YQDs) initiative, which returns for the second year at the Doha Jewellery and Watches Exhibition (DJWE) next month. This DJWE initiative under the patronage of Prime Minister...

  29 Jan 2018 - 9:35 The Peninsula Doha: One lucky winner in  Qatar received an Audi A3 along with other gifts and blessings this festive season. MD Omar Faruk Md Rofikulislam, a Qatar resident originally from Bangladesh was overjoyed to be the grand prize winner of an Audi car in Joyalukkas’ recently concluded Shop & Win Promotion. Twenty Five other winners went...

Preliminary frequency plans for 5G ready   29 Jan 2018 - 9:54 The Peninsula Doha: The Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) has completed the needed preparations for the fifth generation (5G) frequency bands for mobile telecommunications services and has prepared preliminary frequency plans that can accommodate the demand of Qatar’s telecom service providers of the main candidate frequency bands for the use of 5G...

28 January 2018 After gaining some recognition on Wall Street, cryptocurrencies have attracted the interest of asset rating agencies. Last week, Florida-based Weiss Ratings released a report that assigned grades to dozens of cryptocurrencies based on a number of metrics, like risk, technological innovation, and other fundamentals. There were a couple of surprises to the report. One of them was that none...

27 Jan 2018 MORE ON SAUDI ARABIA Yemen: Separatists take over government headquarters in Adentoday AFC: No neutral venues for Saudi-Qatar football matchestoday Saudi's Oger dismissed workers still waiting for paymentsyesterday UK fines Al Arabiya for Bahrain 'torture confession'2 days ago Prominent Saudi businessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been released after more than two months of detention on allegations of corruption, according...

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  27 Jan 2018 - 12:11 Image used for representation. By Anisha Bijukumar / The Peninsula Online Buying and cleaning fresh seafood can be intimidating and add to that the recent move that saw the relocation of central fish market to Umm Salal. This is probably one of the reasons behind the increasing number of online portals offering fresh seafood and meat in Qatar. Qfreshonline.com...