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Survey: Qatar residents hope job growth will help offset rising costs

Though Qatar respondents in the latest Consumer Confidence Index by Bayt.com and YouGov said their savings have gone down due to higher rent, tuition and other costs, many were hopeful that upcoming job opportunities would help boost their finances.

1 min

Culture

Souq Waqif in Al Wakrah soft opens to the public

The market, which is behind the Al Wakrah petrol station, next to the port, stretches some 3km along the town's cost, with a Corniche for people to walk along.

2 min

Culture
Life

Qatar ranked among friendliest nations for Muslim travelers

The Gulf state has moved up three spots on the Crescent Rating survey since last year, when it was scored eighth out of 29 Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states, and up five spots from its 10th-place ranking in 2013 and 2012.

4 min

Qatar Cabinet oks establishment of two new cyber security bodies

The new measures would give more powers to the Ministry of Interior to monitor and enforce cyber security by setting up a National Center for Cyber Security and a separate National Committee for Information Security.

2 min

Culture
Life

Artwork, handicrafts produced by Qatar prisoners now for sale online

The country's Ministry of Interior's Penal and Correctional Institutions Department (PCID) has established a dedicated website directly selling artwork, wooden chests, accessories and traditional handicrafts made by prisoners.

3 min

Business

Qatar forecast to run first budget deficit in more than a decade

The upcoming deficits projected by QNB mean the nation will likely face more pressure to reduce spending on projects and programs unrelated to the 2022 World Cup.

4 min

Business

50,000 more Bangladeshis to take on Qatar jobs in next three months

Speaking to Doha News today, embassy officials said the individuals already have job offers in Qatar, but had been waiting for the government here to approve their applications.

3 min

Politics

Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr taken off air amid Qatar-Egypt reconciliation

Cairo has in the past accused Al Jazeera and by extension its funder Qatar of serving as the Muslim Brotherhood's proxy by airing the group's views on Al Mubasher Misr.

2 min

Business

Shura Council eases proposed licensing rules for Qatar businesses

A draft law would give businesses a quicker response to their applications, and the opportunity to appeal against petitions that were rejected.

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