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• The Pearl-Qatar: An exclusive home for international residents

  Published: September 26, 2007, 2:03 am

  Tags: Doha, The Pearl Qatar

  off the coast of Doha, Qatar. via Gizmag

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• US$4.3 million offer for 400-year-old Al-Qur`an

  Published: October 9, 2007, 11:45 pm

  Tags: Ahmed, Doha, Handwritten, Holy, Islamic, Life, Makkah, Million, Mohamed, Offer, Qassem, Qatari, Quran, Saeed, Scholar, Suwaidi, Yemeni

  ""I might agree to part with it if I get a good offer. read more

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• S. Africa, Brazil and India to reach a trade deal in oposition to US and Europe

  Published: October 17, 2007, 7:28 pm

  Tags: Africa, Asia, Brazil, India, Washington, Agreement, Agriculture, America, Appeared, Boost, Breakthrough, Bush, Commit, Concession, Confident, Council, Cutting, Developing, Differences, Doha, Economy, George, Global, Greater, Ian, Inacio, Launched, Leader, Luiz, Lula, Nations, Opening

  President Lula da Silva said today in Pretoria, South Africa, they are commited on creat the greatest area of free trade over the globe. read more

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• French Architect Goes Global

  Published: November 8, 2007, 4:42 pm

  Tags: France, Le Havre, Abu Dhabi, Architect, Architecture, Building, Culture, Details, Doha, French, Global, Goes, Nouvel, Paris, Qatar, Verne

  Like a character out of Jules Verne, Jean Nouvel, 62, says that he creates a small world in each building that he designs. read more

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• Tearing Down Borders

  Published: November 17, 2007, 2:01 pm

  Tags: Business, Colombia, Susan Schwab, Doha, Mercosur, U S Congress, George W Bush, Free Trade, Trade, International Relations, Political Policy, Politics, Trade Policy

  Despite rising protectionist sentiment in Congress, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab says pending free-trade deals will pass--and benefit American workers.

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• The Qatari Connection

  Published: December 1, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Politics Campaign 2008, Rudolph Giuliani, Qatar, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Doha

  Giuliani won't release a full list of his business interests. One now-public deal is of particular note.

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• United States can make a dent on global poverty if it wants

  Published: November 10, 2007, 2:07 pm

  Tags: United States, World Trade Organisation, Poverty, Millennium Development Goals, Doha Round

  conclusion the current Doha Round of trade liberalization talks in 2006 under the World Trade Organisation. This is a sure way to show seriousness in bridging the gap between its foreign policy rhetoric and foreign policy follow-through. Indeed, this gap has characterized US commitments in global poverty reduction. In the upcoming WTO

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• Price-control-board debate may delay cheap drugs law

  Published: January 20, 2008, 11:07 am

  Tags: Health Issues, Congress Watch, Pcij Investigative Reports, Doha Declaration, Drugs, Drug Price Regulation, Intellectual Property Rights, Medicines, Patents, Pharmaceutcial Industry, Philippines, Trips Agreement

  AFTER almost a decade, a bill that may spell the difference between health and death is on the verge of finally being enacted into law. Seeking to ensure access to affordable, quality medicines by majority of poor Filipinos, the measure will no doubt be among the priorities in the legislative order of business when sessions [...]

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• Amelie Mauresmo considers retirement frustrated with her bad results

  Published: February 22, 2008, 6:44 pm

  Tags: Amelie Mauresmo, Wondering, Pack, Mauresmo, Bring, Leaves, Doha, Disappointments, Failure

  of the Qatar Total Open in Doha to qualifier Tamarine Tunasugarn, ranked outside of top 100. Not only was Mauresmo defeated, but she lost in straight sets and was broken six times. "I want to keep on playing but at the same time I am wondering if it's the right thing to do," said Mauresmo to L'Equipe in Doha. "Just as soon as I

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• The New Economics of Hunger

  Published: April 27, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: The, New, Economics, Hunger, United States, China, Japan, Jeff Voge, New Delhi, Australia, European Union, France, India, Europe, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Ban Ki Moon, Bruce Babcock, Chicago, Doha, Jacques Edouard Alexis, Kansas City, Liu Yinhua, Manjeet Singh, Michel Barnier

  The globe's worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America's great grain exchanges. At first, it seemed like little more than a bout of bad weather.

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• The New Economics of Hunger

  Published: April 27, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: The, New, Economics, Hunger, United States, China, Japan, Jeff Voge, New Delhi, Australia, European Union, France, India, Europe, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Ban Ki Moon, Bruce Babcock, Chicago, Doha, Jacques Edouard Alexis, Kansas City, Liu Yinhua, Manjeet Singh, Michel Barnier

  The globe's worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America's great grain exchanges. At first, it seemed like little more than a bout of bad weather.

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• WFP Chief welcomes greater funding needed to address global food price rises

  Published: May 3, 2008, 8:15 am

  Tags: Corn Wheat Rice Shortage Food Crisis Wfp Farmers Doha Wto Agricultural Infrastructure Deficit Malnutrition Africa Poverty Defense Budget Human Rights Democracy Ngo, World

  Rome, 1 May 2008 - Following President Bush's call on Congress to step up with an additional US$ 770 million for food aid and development programmes, Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the United Nations World...read more

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• Postscript to a long-overdue legislation

  Published: May 11, 2008, 10:28 pm

  Tags: I Report Features, Public Health, Congress Watch, In The News, Affordable Medicines, Bicameral Conference Committee, Doha Declaration, Drug Price Regulatory Board, Generics Act, Pharmaceutical Industry, Philippines, Trips Agreement

  FINALLY, Congress ratified the bicameral conference committee-approved draft of the long-awaited law that promises to ensure access to affordable, quality medicines by majority of poor Filipinos. The legislative measure, called the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008, was even billed as a Labor Day gift to

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• No cure for costly medicines? Draft law affirms patent rights of drug firms

  Published: May 11, 2008, 1:08 pm

  Tags: I Report Features, Public Health, Congress Watch, In The News, Affordable Medicines, Bicameral Conference Committee, Doha Declaration, Generics Act, Intellectual Property Code, Patents, Pharmaceutical Industry, Philippines, Third World Network, Trips Agreement

  PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is expected to sign into law this week the recently ratified cheaper medicines bill, which promises to bring down the prohibitive cost of drugs and medicines in the country. Long awaited by the public, the bill had languished in Congress for almost a decade, its recent approval even bogged down by intense lobbying

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• Hezbollah Emerges Ahead in Lebanon

  Published: May 18, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Hezbollah, Emerges, Ahead, Lebanon, Beirut, Saad Hariri, Israel, Mohammed Shamaa, Ahmed Farran, Assem Salam, Paul Salem, Rafik Hariri, Tariq Jdeideh, Yahya Thibyan, Ali Mohieddin, Amal Saad Ghorayeb, Doha, Emad Al Laham, Nadia Assaf, Walid Jumblatt, Zqaq Al Blatt, Beirut C

  BEIRUT -- Time haunts Lebanon. At the entrance to Hamra, once the cosmopolitan heart of the capital, a billboard reads 1,188, the number of days since former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri was assassinated in 2005, plunging the country into a crisis that persists today. A mile or so away, another...

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