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Tunisia: Qatar lends $ 1billion; offer to host 20000 Tunisian workers
African Manager
Qatar announced, Wednesday, the granting of a loan of one billion dollars to Tunisia. It also expressed its readiness to host 20000 Tunisian workers among unemployed graduates in this country, reports the Associated Press quoting the Spokesman for the ...

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ROTA celebrates Adult English Literacy Programme success
AME Info
First developed in 2009, the RAEL Program was created primarily to develop the English literacy and language abilities of low-skilled migrant workers in Qatar. A key feature of the programme offers opportunities for young people in Qatar to take part ...

FIFA publishes anti-corruption code of conduct
KFVS
The TSA has given Atlanta's busy airport permission to issue security IDS to workers before background checks are completed because of "extended" delays in the process. Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest NBA player ever, is poised to become the ...

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Remains of two Pinoy seamen killed in rescue ops to arrive in PHL Thursday
GMA News
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) advocacy and social marketing division head Rey Tayag said the bodies of Zeron Monzon and Stephen Barbarona will arrive at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) aboard a Qatar Airways flight, ...

Zawya
Rota shows 'Rael' way to impart knowledge to workers
Gulf Times
Beginning in the fall semester, Georgetown University of Foreign Service in Qatar and Texas A & M University in Qatar joined the programme, which was expanded in the spring semester to involve Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
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BD sends 0.23m workers abroad in four months
Financial Express Bangladesh
The Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) source said more than 7.6 million Bangladeshi workers are working in 143 countries across the world. Of them, 80 per cent are working in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Oman, UAE, ...

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Middle East Crude-Qatar Marine slips further as Oman weighs
Reuters
SINGAPORE, April 25 (Reuters) - Middle East crude markets remained weak on Wednesday, with Qatar Marine crude for June lifting extending its losses, weighed down by a recent plunge in Oman crude values. At least one cargo of June Qatar Marine changed ...

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Qatari student wins nomination at film fest
Trade Arabia
Last summer, NU-Q seniors Zainab Sultan, Amit Chowdhury and Nazneen Zahan created a short documentary on female domestic workers in Qatar. The students had travelled to Sri Lanka to report on the workers' journey to the country with the highest per ...

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Qatar to retain highly skilled expat workers
gulfnews.com
By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief Manama: Highly skilled expatriates will not be asked to leave Qatar even if a five-year residency cap is imposed on foreigners, a senior labour officialhas said. "The labour market strategy is based on retaining skilled ...

Firstpost
Qatar needs to ensure better protection of Indian workers: Kurian Kuriakose
Economic Times
By Gyanendra Kumar Keshri NEW DELHI/DOHA: The Indian diaspora in Qatar, constituting nearly one-third of the Gulf country's population, has called for better protection of their interests, especially of low paid workers, as Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin ...
'Qatar needs to ensure better protection of Indian workers'Firstpost

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