Archive for May 17th, 2010

European Union’s Special Representative to the Middle East peace process Marc Otte said that the obstacles to peace in the Middle East have not changed in the last 20 years. “The impediments to the peace process are the same as 20 years ago and centre on the borders, a lack of trust and a...
Read more »

International Jewish linguist Noam Chomsky has blasted Israel after he was denied entry into the West Bank on Sunday, saying that it behaved like a “Stalinist” state. Chomsky told an Israeli daily that he concluded from the questions of the Israeli official that the fact that he went to lecture at a Palestinian and...
Read more »

Yemen has urged the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to offer free medical care to Yemeni patients. The request will be discussed by the GCC ministers when they convene in Geneva on the sideline of an international conference. Each of the six states making up the alliance would present its views on the suggestion...
Read more »

Qatar has reiterated its commitment to provide “clean energy” to the world, reliably and safely. “In the last 13 years, since we first began gas export to Japan, we have not defaulted even once on our supplies. We have not failed even once to deliver LNG cargoes to South Korea or India as well,”...
Read more »

Qatar’s public sector employees earn almost three times as much as people working in the private sector, a survey has indicated. The average monthly pay package in the government sector is QR14,631 ($4,006), while the average private sector is QR5,391 ($1,476), according to the Labour Force Sample Survey conducted by Qatar Statistic Authority (QSA)....
Read more »

Gulf countries should explore harnessing hybrid projects of solar and wind energy to better develop alternative energy and reduce emissions, a Gulf official has said. “We need to have a hybrid. This region has abundant solar radiance and wind energy is perhaps 40 per cent cheaper than solar energy. Wind has so many benefits...
Read more »