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Bonds as an important tool to support economic growth ECONOMY

Bonds as an important tool to support economic growth

In my last article for Gulf Times, we examined the expansion of Qatar’s equity market as an integral part of the government’s strategy of strengthening the private sector, facilitated by the creation of a stock exchange.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Messi inspires Barca comeback CULTURE

Messi inspires Barca comeback

Lionel Messi, with his 500th Barcelona goal, and Luis Suarez saved the Spanish champions from a second defeat in six days as they came from behind to win 2-1 at Sevilla on Sunday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Loss of job security leaves people in the Rust Belt without an anchor INTERNATIONAL

Loss of job security leaves people in the Rust Belt without an anchor

“Some of this reminds me of dropping a big stone in a pond,” Terry Phillips mused over lunch at the Glenville Queen diner, just outside of Schenectady, New York. “You get this big wave.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Actress accuses Hitchcock of groping her in memoir INTERNATIONAL

Actress accuses Hitchcock of groping her in memoir

Actress Tippi Hedren graphically chronicles in a new memoir incidents in which she says she was sexually assaulted and harassed by famed British director Alfred Hitchcock during her star turns in The Birds and Marnie.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Qatar population reaches all-time high at 2.6mn ARABIA

Qatar population reaches all-time high at 2.6mn

The country's population is back to an all-time high as it crossed the 2.6mn mark for the first time ever.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Last shelters at former ‘Jungle’ camp is razed INTERNATIONAL

Last shelters at former ‘Jungle’ camp is razed

The last makeshift structures of the former migrant camp known as the “Jungle” near the northern French port city of Calais were razed yesterday, regional authorities said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
China, Philippines in ‘friendly’ understanding on shoal: official INTERNATIONAL

China, Philippines in ‘friendly’ understanding on shoal: official

The Philippines and China have reached a “friendly” understanding allowing Filipinos to fish around a disputed shoal seized by Beijing in 2012, a senior aide to President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
S&P may not upgrade Indonesia from junk ECONOMY

S&P may not upgrade Indonesia from junk

S&P Global Ratings may not be ready to upgrade Indonesia’s credit rating from junk yet, concerned by rising bad debts and risks to the growth outlook.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Gulf, Turkey bemoan UN inaction on Aleppo ASIA

Gulf, Turkey bemoan UN inaction on Aleppo

Turkey’s foreign minister and his Arab counterparts in the Gulf yesterday condemned “indiscriminate” air strikes on Syria’s Aleppo and expressed “deep regret” at the UN’s inability to stop the raids.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Move to modernise technical aviation regulations in Qatar ARABIA

Move to modernise technical aviation regulations in Qatar

Qatar’s Civil Aviation Authority has initiated the “modernisation of the technical aviation regulations” as part of its keenness to ensure a safer, efficient and flexible aviation system, face future challenges and support growing aviation industry in the country.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Myanmar police killed in attack on Bangladesh border INTERNATIONAL

Myanmar police killed in attack on Bangladesh border

At least two policemen were killed in coordinated attacks by an unknown group on posts along Myanmar's border with Bangladesh early Sunday morning, an official and police said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Qatar population figures climb up again ARABIA

Qatar population figures climb up again

Qatar's population is slowly inching back to its previous highest levels, shows the September figures released by Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics.

4:45 AM November 25 2016