Bahrain police on Sunday arrested 14 Chinese nationals with fake Japanese passports. The detainees had attempted to enter the country on a pre-dawn flight from Dubai. The police, who had doubts about the authenticity of the last two passports, detained their holders and eventually arrested the remaining 12 suspects from their hotels in Manama.
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Qatar is working on attracting around 1.1 million visitors in 2010, the chairman of Qatar Tourism Authority has said. “Around one million tourists visited Qatar in 2009 and we expect this number to grow by 10 percent this year,” Ahmad Bin Abdullah Al Nuaimi said. “The rate of occupancy of hotel rooms was 70...
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A Bahraini sailor was injured when Qatari coastguards opened fire at Bahraini boats that had entered Qatari waters. Qatari coastguards said that they fired shots in the air to warn off seven Bahraini boats that had strayed into their waters. Six of them turned back, but the seventh did not heed the warnings and...
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