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Pictures of Pork Bacon and Sausage in Qatar
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17 Dec 2011We visited Qatar Distribution Company (QDC) this morning to see for ourselves what’s been keeping some people happy these past few weeks. Although the news of Pork products, namely Pork Bacon and Pork Sausages, in Qatar has been out the since middle of November, we weren’t really too excited. We’ve lived in Saudi for years [...]
We usually send boxes of goodies and stuff we want to bring home to the Philippines at least 2 months before we go for vacation through sea cargo. Though it takes 30 to 45 days, it is cheaper than air cargo. We don’t send food or too valuable items so their not perishable in transit. [...]
Pork in Qatar?
4 Oct 2011Rumors of Pork being available in Qatar are running wild again. People have been claiming that it would available at QDC (Qatar Disribution Centre) come December. There have been several rumors of Pork being made available in Qatar for the past years but none has yet come true. Would this new rumor have some grain [...]
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Wrongfully detained Female OFW in Qatar freed
23 Sep 2011Vice President Jejomar Binay today announced that a female overseas Filipino worker (OFW), who was wrongfully detained at the Qatar Deportation Center, has been released. Binay said that the OFW, whose name has been withheld by embassy officials in Qatar, was detained last September 4 when a glitch in the police database showed that the [...]
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Why not Qatar Airways
15 Jun 2011Since our annual vacation is nearing, I finalized and booked our flights back home last month. Since we came to Doha, we have been using Qatar Airways as our airline of choice. But looking at what other airlines have to offer, I decided that Qatar airways may not be the best choice after all. There [...]
