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QP aims to cut its operating costs further ECONOMY

QP aims to cut its operating costs further

Qatar Petroleum (QP), the country's bellwether, is aiming at further reducing its operating costs as part of efforts to improve efficiency as the hydrocarbon industry redefines itself in the wake of low oil economic order.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Pentagon chief in Turkey as Mosul tensions grow ASIA

Pentagon chief in Turkey as Mosul tensions grow

US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Ankara on Friday for talks with the leaders of Turkey, a crucial but sensitive ally in the fight against the Islamic State group.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Far from stepping back, top central banks are set to double down TECHNOLOGY

Far from stepping back, top central banks are set to double down

Central banks’ repeated warnings that there are limits to what they can do to bolster the sputtering world economy could suggest they are about to pull back and pass the baton to governments.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Coca-Cola opens QR132mn bottling plant in Qatar ECONOMY

Coca-Cola opens QR132mn bottling plant in Qatar

The Coca-Cola Company has officially opened its QR132mn ($36mn) Al Mana Plant — the Atlanta, Georgia-based multinational beverage corporation’s first bottling facility in Qatar.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
VW sued for record $9.2bn in German investor lawsuits ECONOMY

VW sued for record $9.2bn in German investor lawsuits

Volkswagen faces Germany’s biggest investor lawsuit as attorneys filed complaints totalling €8.2bn ($9.2bn) related to the diesel emissions scandal that wiped out a third of the company’s market value.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Adopt healthy lifestyle to prevent heart disease: HMC ARABIA

Adopt healthy lifestyle to prevent heart disease: HMC

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has highlighted some simple steps that can help improve heart health and overall wellbeing as part of its new heart health campaign.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Southeast Asian haze crisis killed over 100,000: study INTERNATIONAL

Southeast Asian haze crisis killed over 100,000: study

A smog outbreak in Southeast Asia last year may have caused over 100,000 premature deaths, according to a new study released yesterday that triggered calls for action to tackle the “killer haze”.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Verratti says second-best not enough for PSG ahead of Arsenal clash CULTURE

Verratti says second-best not enough for PSG ahead of Arsenal clash

The Italy midfielder Marco Verratti has rejected suggestions Paris Saint-Germain are in a transitional period as the French club, rattled by a sloppy start to the new campaign, ....

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Philippine police foil plot to kill president INTERNATIONAL

Philippine police foil plot to kill president

The Philippine National Police (PNP) yesterday claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate President Rodrigo Duterte, after busting a syndicate that allegedly smuggled high-powered firearms from the US.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Quake hit in Italy’s most seismically-prone regions INTERNATIONAL

Quake hit in Italy’s most seismically-prone regions

The deadly earthquake that struck central Italy before dawn yesterday occurred in a notorious seismic hotspot, and dangerous aftershocks are possible, scientists said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Pakistan forces seal MQM headquarters after TV station attack INTERNATIONAL

Pakistan forces seal MQM headquarters after TV station attack

Pakistani paramilitary forces raided the headquarters of a powerful political party in the port city of Karachi on Tuesday after supporters of the party stormed the office of a television channel the day before.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Philippine war on crime packs decaying jails INTERNATIONAL

Philippine war on crime packs decaying jails

Mario Dimaculangan shares a toilet with 130 other inmates in one of the Philippines’ most overcrowded jails, and conditions are getting worse as police wage an unprecedented war on crime.

4:45 AM November 25 2016