Peter Alagos

A virtual networking session with India’s ambassador to Qatar Dr Deepak Mittal, hosted by the Indian Business & Professionals Council (IBPC) Qatar yesterday, highlighted the various opportunities to enhance Qatar-India ties in different sectors.

Landowners in Qatar stand to gain from a package of smart real estate solutions that would allow them to utilise, reclaim, and convert land lots into lucrative real estate projects that generate proceeds in a short period, an official from SAK Partnerships Company has said.

Qatar and Malaysia’s total trade volume reached $840.1mn in 2019, according to Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) trade commissioner Omar Mohd Salleh.

US investor confidence in Qatar continues to increase, according to an official of the US-Qatar Business Council (USQBC), who cited reforms and laws aimed at attracting foreign direct investments (FDI) and Qatar’s resiliency against an economic blockade and Covid-19

Talks are ongoing between hypermarket giant LuLu and leading institutions in Qatar for the development and growth of the country’s entrepreneurship and startup ecosystem, an official told Gulf Times.

Backed by its 2020 budget of QR210bn ($60bn), “the biggest in the past five years,” Qatar has one of the highest ICT spending in the MEA region, Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) CEO and board member Yousuf Mohamed al-Jaida said Wednesday.

Qatar Chamber will continue to provide substantial online training courses to stakeholders in the private sector post Covid-19, the chamber’s director general, Saleh bin Hamad al-Sharqi, has said.

Bilateral trade between Qatar and Italy is expected to get a boost once the international export distribution centre of hypermarket giant LuLu in Milan commences operations, Italian ambassador Alessandro Prunas said.