News: Solar Testing Facility inaugurated at QSTP

Carl Atallah, president of Chevron Qatar Ltd (left) with Omran Hamad Al-Kuwari, CEO of GreenGulf (right) Doha, 2 December: Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), GreenGulf Inc. and Chevron Qatar Ltd today inaugurated the first large-scale Solar Test Facility in Qatar. The event was attended by the leadership of the partnering organisations and the presence of key Qatari [...]

News: Qatargas to deliver its first LNG cargo to Singapore

Doha, 2 December: Qatargas announced today that it will deliver the first ever cargo of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to Singapore next year.  The cargo is expected to be delivered during the first quarter of 2013, and will be used to commission Singapore LNG Corporation Pte Ltd’s (SLNG) LNG Terminal being built on Jurong Island, Singapore. [...]

News: World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) honoured for its work in international education

Doha, 2 December: The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a global education initiative based in Qatar, was awarded the 2012 Magisterio Prize for Educational Leaders. His Excellency Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani, chairman of WISE, accepted the prize from Her Royal Highness Letizia Ortiz, Princess of Asturias in Madrid, Spain, on November 29, 2012. Established [...]

News: City wide recycling scheme launched in Doha

Doha, 18 November: Thanks to a COP18/CMP8 Doha legacy project, the first bulk recycling unit has been set up in the city centre, opposite the Ministry of Environment. The ambition is for the pilot scheme to be rolled out to become a nationwide programme. As part of the launch, staff at the Ministry of Environment [...]

Is the customer always right? - Part 2

IN PART 2 OF OUR SERIES ON CUSTOMER SERVICE IN QATAR, THEEDGE USES SOCIAL MEDIA AS A TOOL TO REPORT ON REAL EXAMPLES FROM CONSUMERS How difficult is it to get a response to a customer complaint in Qatar? Using social media conversations as a starting point, Victoria Scott features some readers’ negative experiences with [...]

Is India the management and innovation hub of the future?

India’s economic rise has been dramatic. But as the growth slows, what does the future hold? The London Business School’s Lynda Gratton, a leading global management thinker, offers her personal view of a country, one with which Qatar has recently strengthened economic ties and relies upon for a substantial part of its blue and white [...]

News: UN makes COP 18 related climate change news available in Arabic

Beirut, November 23 (United Nations Information Centre)—The Humanitarian News and Analysis Service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (IRIN) has launched a new page on its website containing all climate change-related articles and stories in Arabic. The Arabic Climate change stories are available at the following link at www.irinnews.org which will be updated with [...]

COP18: Politics and Protocols

AS QATAR HOSTS THE WORLD’S LARGEST ENVIRONMENTAL SUMMIT LATER THIS MONTH, TheEDGE TAKES A CLOSER LOOK AT WHAT TO EXPECT As Doha hosts the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Can ‘COP 18’ build on the successes of the previous conference, held in South Africa last year – or will negotiations stall again as they so [...]


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