HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al–Thani, and HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani have sent cables to the Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah condoling the death of Sheikha Sheikha Salem Ali al-Malek al-Sabah.
Qatar’s envoy presents credentials
President of Turkmenistan Dr Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rashid Meredov yesterday received the credentials of Ambassador of Qatar Khalifa bin Ahmed al-Suwaidi.
The ambassador conveyed the greetings of HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani to the Turkmenistan president.
The Turkmenistan president reciprocated the Emir’s greetings and his wished further prosperity and progress to the State of Qatar.
The president of Turkmenistan and the country’s deputy prime minister expressed their desire to enhance bilateral relations between the two countries.
31 magazines, dailies published in Qatar
Thirty-one periodicals - magazines and newspapers - are currently published in Qatar, according to data released by the department of cultural studies and research at the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage.
Twenty of these periodicals are newspapers publishing 5,735 issues a year and 11 are magazines with 96 issues a year.
The data show that there are five Arabic dailies, representing 25% of the total number of newspapers in the country, and the remaining 15 are published in foreign languages.
The Arabic dailies publish 1,825 issues a year, representing 32% of the total number of issues, with foreign language newspapers accounting for 3,910 issues. These papers are published in eight different languages.
