Qatar

The polling station locations for the 2024 referendum on the constitutional amendment project have been announced by the General Referendum Committee; the referendum will also be held in electronic form

Qatar Airways launched the world's first Starlink-equipped Boeing 777 aircraft, which took off with passengers on board, from London to Doha, complete with free high-speed Internet access

The initiative 'My Values Design My Identity', promoted by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, saw the participation of over 30.000 public school students in the first phase

The Ministry of Public Health is preparing to introduce a national patient safety event reporting system to capture, analyse and learn from incidents that could harm patients

The country could record its highest number of tourists ever this year, having already welcomed almost 3,3 million visitors in the first eight months of 2024, a 26% increase over last year, when more than 4 million visitors were welcomed

Qatar Museums unveiled a new metal sculpture at the Al Shafallah Centre: 'Infinity Love' honours 25 years of support by Sheikha Moza, who founded the centre in 1999 to support people with disabilities

A new study by Smart focuses on public attitudes towards retirement savings in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE; the survey of 1.500 individuals revealed that most respondents considered benefits as a key driver to relocate to Qatar or other Gulf countries

Hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup has accelerated economic diversification, with a massive public infrastructure investment programme launched in 2011 leading to the construction of ports, roads, subways and airports, reports IMF

The National Library of Qatar will launch a digital family archive platform in 2025 to document a range of archival materials, including passports, photographs, stamps and correspondence

In order to improve the country's instant payment system, the Central Bank of Qatar introduced the 'Request Payment' function through its 'Fawran' service in line with the Third Financial Sector Strategic Plan

The second phase of the summer training programme of the Qatar Media Centre of the Ministry of Culture will kick off on 1 August, with workshops, educational and recreational sessions, targeting groups aged between 8 and 16 years old

The Qatar Skydive Team of the Qatar Air Sports Committee, part of the Joint Special Forces, won the bronze medal at the CISM World Military Parachuting Championship, in Hungary, in which 33 countries took part

A recent study shows that the Pre-diabetes Risk Score, developed using clinical data from the Qatar Biobank and relying solely on non-invasive parameters, accurately diagnoses pre-diabetes in more than 90% of individuals in a real-world clinical setting