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- APEC ministers back G20 trade push
APEC leaders meeting in Peru are to push to revive moribund global trade talks by the end of the year as a way of combating the world economic crisis, officials here have said. The Doha round of trade negotiations, which hit a dead end in July, should be
- Tusk discusses gas contracts in Qatar
Prime Minister Donald Tusk is on a three day visit to Kuwait and Qatar to discuss natural gas contracts in hopes of diversifying Poland?s energy supply. In Qatar on Tuesday, Tusk announced that he would like Qatar to become Poland?s primary supplier
- Donald Tusk in Kuwait and Qatar
Gaining access to liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Arab countries is in Polands particular interest in an effort to become less dependent on gas deliveries from Russia. Qatar is the biggest producer and exporter of LNG in the world. While in the
- Cambodia urges unity among poor nations on trade
(AP)
AP - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday poor countries like his must continue speaking with one voice in the Doha round of global trade talks to ensure their competitiveness with developed countries.
- UK entrepreneur in Qatar biomedical venture
OFFICIAL VISIT: British prime minister Gordon Brown (r) visited the Qatar Science and Technology Park on his Gulf visit earlier this month. () British scientist and entrepreneur Professor Sir Christopher Evans is planning to launch a business venture in
- Darfur rebels for Doha talks
KHARTOUM: A powerful rebel group yesterday said it was ready to discuss Qatar-sponsored peace plans for the Darfur conflict, signalling a possible softening of its stance towards the initiative. Senior commanders from the Justice and Equality Movement
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Ruled by the Al Thani family since the mid-1800s, Qatar transformed itself from a poor British protectorate noted mainly for pearling into an independent state with significant oil and natural gas revenues. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Qatari economy was crippled by a continuous siphoning off of petroleum revenues by the amir who had ruled the country since 1972. He was overthrown by his son, the current Amir HAMAD bin Khalifa Al Thani, in a bloodless coup in 1995. In 2001, Qatar resolved its longstanding border disputes with both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Oil and natural gas revenues enable Qatar to have a per capita income not far below the leading industrial countries of Western Europe.
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Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday the United Nations was looking into reports of aerial bombings in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region after the Sudanese government declared a ceasefire.
AFP - Australia kept their 100 percent World Cup qualifying record intact with a last-gasp 1-0 win over Bahrain on Wednesday while Group One rivals Japan secured a crucial 3-0 victory in Qatar.
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