Highlights
Drones to Broadcast Awareness Message in Qatar
The Ministry of Interior has launched an awareness campaign using drones for the residents of Qatar. The drones with loudspeakers will broadcast awareness messages in various parts of the country. The message includes the importance of adhering to safety measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus (Covid 19), by [...]
Communicating across cultures and languages during COVID-19
The need for accurate language services at Qatar’s healthcare facilities has never been greater. Fortunately, HBKU's TII has helped the country’s interpreters and translators adapt to the linguistic and cultural challenges posed by COVID-19, says Mazen Alfarhan a reviser and trainer at Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII), which forms part [...]
Covid-19: QMC Launches New Website In English
Within the framework of Qatar’s efforts to combat the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), Qatar Media Corporation (QMC) has launched a new digital platform in English. The website www.covid19qatar.info is considered a new step to ensure the multiplicity of various means of publishing the country’s preventive, educational and medical [...]
Farm Owners Sell Produce Online
A number of Qatari farm owners have adopted a new approach to market their products online and deliver them direct to the customers’ homes as part of complying with the measures to prevent any further spread of Covid-19 in the country. Local Arabic daily Arrayah has reported that the new [...]
Iconic Pearl Monument Shifted to Roundabout in Al Wakra
The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has completed the relocation works of the Pearl Monument to Al Fardah Roundabout in Al Wakra Old Souq adjacent to Al Wakra port in an attempt to preserve the cultural heritage of the country in accordance with Qatar National vision 2030. The relocation works, according [...]
Ministry Launches New Hotline To Receive Workers’ Complaints
The Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Aff airs (MADLSA) has launched a new hotline, 92727, to receive workers’ complaints. This was announced at a press conference addressed by Mohamed Hassan al-Obaidly, Assistant Undersecretary for Labour Affairs at the ministry, in Doha yesterday. The hotline will function round the-clock, [...]
