Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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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- Tags: Haram, Pork, Qatar
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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- Tags: OFW, Qatar
Benihana loses case to Blogger
In: Middle East|News|Qatar
28 Apr 2011I’m sure bloggers in the Middle East have been aware of a Kuwaiti Blogger being sued by Benihana, A Japanese Family Restaurant, for giving it a bad review (read it here). The General Manager, Mike Servo, deemed that Benihana’s name and reputation have been “abused and destroyed” by the review as the blogger wrote “Would [...]
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- Tags: benihana, Kuwait
Qatar Airways 2 day Seat Sale!
In: Bahrain|Middle East|News|Qatar|Qatar Airways|Saudi|Transportation|UAE
27 Jan 2011I got this email from Qatar Airways about their 2-day Seat Sale. The Seat Sale is actually nice if you really do intend to go to Dubai, Bahrain or to the other GCC countries mentioned as the base fare does come out lower than what you typically pay for. However, these rates don’t include any [...]
Petroleum Price Increases in Qatar!
24 Jan 2011Anyone can agree that the prices of petrol/gas in Qatar might be one of the cheapest in the world that it is cheaper than your bottle of water. The last time Qatar increased prices was in 2005 whereas in the Philippines, the prices fluctuate every week, if not every day. A 20 Dirham increase might [...]
