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Dubai airport passenger traffic up 6.1% in August ASIA

Dubai airport passenger traffic up 6.1% in August

Passenger traffic through Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international travel, rose 6.1% from a year earlier to a record 7.73mn people in August, the airport's operator said on Monday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Capabilities of Es’hail-1 highlighted at exhibition ARABIA

Capabilities of Es’hail-1 highlighted at exhibition

Es’hailSat-the Qatar Satellite Company is taking part in the annual IBC conference and exhibition, which is being held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, until tomorrow.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Children account for 58% of all Pak-origin refugees: Unicef INTERNATIONAL

Children account for 58% of all Pak-origin refugees: Unicef

One in six Asian migrants is a child, with Pakistan ranking among the top 10 countries hosting child refugees in Asia, according to a United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) report.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Message from UK foreign secretary ARABIA

Message from UK foreign secretary

HE the Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani has received a written message from UK’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson pertaining to bilateral relations and ways of enhancing them.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Taiwan, China batten down hatches as super typhoon approaches INTERNATIONAL

Taiwan, China batten down hatches as super typhoon approaches

Taiwan and China began battening down the hatches on Thursday ahead of the arrival of super Typhoon Nepartak, the first of the year, with fears in China that storm could ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Minister inaugurates Mesaimeer labour health centre ARABIA

Minister inaugurates Mesaimeer labour health centre

A new Labour Health Centre and a Medical Commission unit that together can cater to more than 40,000 people a month have been officially opened at Mesaimeer.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Love for books highlighted at QF’s National Reading Campaign ARABIA

Love for books highlighted at QF’s National Reading Campaign

Bedtime is six-year-old Luna and four-year-old Mohamed’s favourite period to bond with their mother, Hala Danaoui, because they enjoy reading fairy tales together before going to sleep.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Napoli brush aside Verona sans Higuain CULTURE

Napoli brush aside Verona sans Higuain

Second-placed Napoli comfortably overcame the absence of suspended top scorer Gonzalo Higuain to brush aside bottom-of-the-table Verona 3-0 in Serie A yesterday after their opponents played the entire second half with 10 men.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Study links human behaviour to birds when events go ‘viral’ ARABIA

Study links human behaviour to birds when events go ‘viral’

A new research developed in Qatar by a scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), one of Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU’s) national research institutes, ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Roberts targets big time at Celtic CULTURE

Roberts targets big time at Celtic

Patrick Roberts says he is looking to establish himself as a regular starter for Celtic after bagging a double in his side’s 3-1 win over Hearts.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
‘Stokes experienced his Headingley ’81 moment’ CULTURE

‘Stokes experienced his Headingley ’81 moment’

“I held that record for 33 years so it was about time it moved on,” says a smiling Sir Ian Botham, reflecting on that performance by Ben Stokes in Cape Town, in which South Africa’s bowlers were obliterated to the tune of 258 runs in only 198 balls,

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Woqod outlines QR1.3bn for capital projects for 2016 ECONOMY

Woqod outlines QR1.3bn for capital projects for 2016

Woqod, which is expecting to construct 15 to 18 petrol stations, has outlined a total expenditure of about QR1.3bn for capital projects for 2016.

4:45 AM November 25 2016