- The Al Thanis, an Arabic Family part which belongs to the Ma'adid sect of the Banu Tamim tribe, can be traced back to Mudar bin Nizar who settled at Gebrin oasis in southern Najd(present-day Saudi Arabia) before he moved to Qatar. Around the 17th century, the tribe lived in Ushayqir, a settlement north-east of Riyadh. They settled in Qatar around the 1740s. Their first settlement in Qatar was in the southern town of Sikak, and from there they moved north-west to Zubarah and Al Ruwais. They settled in Doha in the 19th century under their leader Mohammed bin Thani. The group was named after the father of Mohammad, Thani bin Mohammad. The family is made of four main factions. There were three major branches in the early 1990s: Bani Qassim, Bani Ahmed, Bani Jaber and Bani Thamer.
- Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (Arabic: تميم بن حمد آل ثاني ; born 3 June 1980) is the eighth and current Emir of Qatar. He is the fourth son of the previous Emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. He became Emir of Qatar on 25 June 2013 after his father's abdication. Tamim has held a variety of government posts within Qatar and also worked to promote numerous sporting events within the country. As of 2013, Tamim is the youngest reigning monarch among the GCC countries and the youngest current sovereign worldwide.Tamim bin Hamad was born on 3 June 1980 in Doha, Qatar. He is the fourth son of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and second son of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned, Hamad's second wife. Tamim was educated at Great Britain's Sherborne School (International College) in Dorset, and at Harrow School, where he sat his A-Levels in 1997. He then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, graduating in 1998.
- hkej 3may18 shum article on how qatar dealt with sanctions with help of iran and turkey
- Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al-Thani, a little-known royal, emerged as a key figure in the dispute between the Gulf states in the weeks after Riyadh and Abu Dhabi cut ties with Doha. He is seen by some as a potential challenger to the Qatari leadership. A video circulating online, also broadcast by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television, shows the sheikh seated in an armchair warning that he was "afraid something could happen to me that will be blamed on Qatar". "I am now in Abu Dhabi, where I was a guest of (UAE crown prince) Sheikh Mohammed" bin Zayed al-Nahyan, said Sheikh Abdullah, "That is no longer the case. I am now detained," he said. "I want to make clear that the people of Qatar are innocent," the sheikh said.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/14/qatari-royal-says-held-against-will-uae/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/delicate-bargain-frees-26-hostages-including-qatar-royals/2017/04/22/0a8dc144-272a-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html Qatar has secured the release of 26 hostages after nearly a year and a half in captivity, including members of its ruling family, in what became possibly the region’s most complex and sensitive hostage negotiation deal in recent years. Several people with knowledge of the talks and a person involved in the negotiations said the hostage deal was linked to one of the largest population transfers in Syria’s six-year-long civil war, and was delayed for several days due to an explosion one week ago that killed at least 130 people, most of them children and government supporters, waiting to be transferred. The transfer of thousands of Syrian civilians was also tied to another deal involving 750 political prisoners to be released by the Syrian government. The complexity of the talks highlights Qatar’s role as an experienced and shrewd facilitator in hostage negotiations — this time involving members of the Gulf Arab state’s ruling family. It also raised allegations that the tiny energy rich nation paid millions of dollars to an al-Qaida-linked group to facilitate the population transfer in Syria that led to the hostages’ release in Iraq on Friday.
- The Qatar Financial Centre Authority (QFC Authority) is a business and financial centre located in Doha, providing legal and business infrastructure for financial services. It was established in March 2005.
- National Tourism Council (formerly Qatar Tourism Authority)
Qatar Sovereign Fund
- http://www.scmp.com/business/money/markets-investing/article/1021244/qatar-fund-buys-citic-capital (PUBLISHED : Thursday, 23 August, 2012, 12:00am)
- A unit of Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has agreed to acquire a 19.9-percent stake, or 324 million shares, in Lifestyle International Ltd’s dominant shareholder, Real Reward Ltd, for HK$4.78 billion ($616 million). http://www.chinadailyasia.com/hknews/2014-10/21/content_15180370.html, hkej 21oct14 a1, singtao 21oct14 b2, http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1620858/qatari-fund-buys-sogo-store-operator-hk48b, http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201410/1021/HA07A21CEAA.pdf
- http://www.ft.com/fastft/230662/qatar-citic-agree-5bn-investment-deal Qatar's sovereign wealth fund and Chinese conglomerate CITIC Group have agreed to invest $5bn each in projects in China and elsewhere in Asia as the fund seeks to diversify into Asia. hkej 5nov14 a15, Qatar's sovereign wealth fund has joined hands with Chinese investment conglomerate CITICGroup to set up a $10 billion fund that will scout for deals in China, even as the Gulf state'sinvestment arm looks to further expand its presence in Asia, the Qatar Investment Authorityrevealed on Tuesday. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-11/05/content_18868108.htm, http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/11/05/b02-1105.pdf, hket 5nov14 a8, http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201411/1105/HA08B05COWW.pdf, http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20141105/PDF/b5_screen.pdf
- 市場同時關注若局勢惡化，卡塔爾主權財富基金卡塔爾投資局（QIA）在全球資產的動向，例如福士汽車、Tiffany、嘉能可(00805)及農業銀行(01288)等。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20170606/00202_005.html卡塔爾媒體料，卡塔爾一四年在英國的投資最少350億英鎊，包括多幢地標式建築物，如摩天大廈Shard、Harrod's百貨公司及The Savoy Hotel，卡塔爾為首財團一五年續購入倫敦金絲雀碼頭物業。
- 劉鑾鴻（細劉）任主席的利福國際(01212)及利福中國(02136)傳遭主要股東卡塔爾投資局（Qatar Investment Authority，簡稱QIA）悉售持股，套現逾52億元。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20180321/00202_026.html
association
- http://www.qf.org.qa/ Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is a private, non-profit organization that serves the people of Qatar by supporting and operating programs in three core mission areas: education, science and research, and community development.
- arab bureau for the education of gulf states
- aspire academy
Company
- Qatar Petroleum (QP) is a state owned petroleum company in Qatar. The company operates all oil and gas activities in Qatar, including exploration, production, refining, transport, and storage.After World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Qatar fell within the British sphere of influence and the first onshore oil concession in the country was awarded in 1935 to British Petroleum's predecessor, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (AIOC). Because of its obligations under the Red Line Agreement, AIOC transferred the concession to an associate company of the Iraq Petroleum Co., Petroleum Development (Qatar) Ltd. (PDQ), which would operate the concession. PDQ was later renamed the Qatar Petroleum Co. (QPC). In October 1938, Dukhan No. 1 was spudded and yielded 4,000 barrels of oil per day by January 1940. However, World War II delayed development until 1947 and the first crude exports occurred in 1949. The first offshore concessions were granted in 1949 to a Canadian Company, the International Marine Oil Company (IMOC), which was a subsidiary of a US company, the Superior Oil Co., and the London-registered Central Mining & Investment Co. In 1952, after IMOC had withdrawn, the Shell Co.-Qatar (SCQ) acquired exploration rights to most offshore territory. In 1960 and 1963, the Idd Al-Shargi and Maydan Mahzam fields were discovered, respectively. The largest offshore field, Bul Hanine, was discovered in 1970 and came onstream in 1972.
- qatar airways
- echo for trading & contracting & services
industry
- lng
currency
- Qatar’s currency has come under pressure from investors amid rising tensions in the Middle East, stoking worries that an escalating crisis could endanger the Gulf state’s longstanding peg to the US dollar. The Qatari riyal is fixed at a strict rate of about QR3.64 a dollar. But the premium demanded to guarantee future currency trades has rocketed in the past two days, hitting levels last seen during the 2008 oil price collapse. Dollar-riyal 12-month forward points have more than doubled from 202 to 475, according to Bloomberg data. That means traders wanting to exchange riyal for dollars 12 months from now would have to pay QR3.6955 a dollar using outright forward contracts.
https://www.ft.com/content/51b1b664-4ac2-11e7-919a-1e14ce4af89b
People
- Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber bin Mohammed bin Thani Al Thani (born 11 January 1959) (Arabic: حمد بن جاسم بن جبر آل ثاني) is a former politician in Qatar. He was the Prime Minister of Qatar from 3 April 2007 to 26 June 2013, and foreign minister from 11 January 1992 to 26 June 2013.
- http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21699960-kinder-gentler-puritanism-some-other-wahhabi-state
IATA
- http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/qatar-airways-urges-action-gulf-boycott-170612141749614.html The chief executive of Qatar Airways has said the measures taken against Qatari air traffic should be declared illegal. Akbar Al Baker made the comments to Al Jazeera on Monday, a week after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt closed their airspace to Qatari flights as part of a series of measures against Doha amid a major diplomatic rift. The four countries cut diplomatic and transport ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing Doha of backing "terrorism" - charges that Qatar denies.
opec
- https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/03/business/qatar-opec-withdrawal/index.html The small, gas-rich state of Qatar said Monday that it will leave the oil cartel on January 1 after nearly 60 years. The country's state oil company, Qatar Petroleum, made the announcement in a series of tweets. "The withdrawal decision reflects Qatar's desire to focus its efforts on plans to develop and increase its natural gas production," Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the country's newly-appointedminister of state for energy affairs, was cited as saying in one of the tweets.
Usa
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170617/00192_001.html美國國防部近日確認，美國將向卡塔爾出售價值一百二十億美元的戰機。在特朗普咄咄逼人的壓力下，卡塔爾不得不奉上保護費。
- American Airlines is not happy with Qatar Airways' intent to invest. American Airlines CEO Doug Parker sent a letter to employees on Thursday in response to Qatar Airways announcing their offer to acquire a 10 percent stake in the company.In the letter, Parker uses the word "puzzling" to describe Qatar Airways' intention to invest and specifically points out "illegal subsidies" as the reason behind his criticism. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/american-airlines-ceo-writes-a-scathing-response-to-qatar-airways-desire-to-invest.html
Uk
- Barclays, Mr Varley and its former team of top bankers may be facing sleepless nights for some time to come. The UK’s Serious Fraud Office took the unprecedented step on Tuesday of charging the bank, Mr Varley, Roger Jenkins — head of the investment bank’s Middle East division — and two other senior bankers at the time, Tom Kalaris and Richard Boath, with fraud over the deal that was struck with the Qataris.https://www.ft.com/content/75cd2270-57fd-11e7-9fed-c19e2700005f
Turkey
- Turkey backs isolated Qatar and risks angering Saudi Arabia ft 8jun17
- 以沙特阿拉伯為首的中東多國六月初宣布與卡塔爾斷交，至今已逾一百日。卡塔爾國王塔米周四到訪土耳其，是自斷交風波發生以來首次離境。塔米與土耳其總統埃爾多安在安卡拉的總統府會面，雙方提及解決斷交風波的重要性及加強合作。塔米其後到德國柏林訪問，與總理默克爾會面。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170916/00180_026.html
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-currency-qatar/qatar-and-turkey-central-banks-sign-swap-agreement-qatar-central-bank-idUSKCN1L40NSQatar and Turkey’s central banks have signed a currency swap agreement to provide liquidity and support for financial stability, Qatar’s central bank said on Sunday, days after Turkey’s Gulf ally pledged $15 billion in support.
gulf countries
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40155829 A number of Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.It comes amid heightened tensions between Gulf countries and their near-neighbour, Iran. The Saudi statement accused Qatar of collaborating with "Iranian-backed terrorist groups" in its restive eastern region of Qatif and in Bahrain.The diplomatic withdrawal was first put into motion by Bahrain, then Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Yemen, Libya's eastern-based government and the Maldives all followed suit.
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/arab-states-drawing-up-list-of-demands-for-qatar-1496875243Leading Arab states are drawing up a list of demands that Qatar must meet to return to normal diplomatic and economic relations, including steps to significantly scale back the Al Jazeera media network, said Arab and U.S. officials involved in the discussions.
- https://www.ft.com/content/160a343a-61bc-11e8-a39d-4df188287fff Qatar has banned products imported from the four Arab neighbours that a year ago imposed a regional embargo on the gas-rich state, in a retaliatory move against its rivals. A circular issued by the economy ministry ordered stores to stop selling all products imported from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt. A government statement on Saturday said the ban was “to protect the safety of consumers in the state of Qatar and to combat improper trafficking of goods”.
oman
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40248145 Qatar says it has begun shipping cargo through Oman to bypass restrictions imposed by other Gulf states. Qatar Ports Management Company said direct services to Sohar and Salalah would operate three times a week. Cargo for Qatar is usually shipped to ports in the United Arab Emirates and then loaded onto smaller vessels.
iran
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170606/00180_004.html外界相信，卡塔爾此後將被迫在區內尋找可靠盟友。被視為「沙特死敵」、與歐美國家關係不佳的伊朗，或會正式與卡塔爾結盟。伊朗高層官員昨亦奉勸，各國勿跟隨特朗普跳劍舞，以免令中東進一步陷入危局。
lebanon
- https://in.reuters.com/article/qatar-lebanon-bonds/qatar-to-put-500-million-in-lebanon-bonds-to-support-economy-idINKCN1PF1FG Qatar will invest $500 million in Lebanese government U.S. dollar bonds to support Lebanon’s struggling economy, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.
israel
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-aljazeera-idUSKBN1AM0J6 Israel plans to revoke the media credentials of Al Jazeera TV journalists, close its Jerusalem bureau and pull the Qatar-based station's broadcasts from local cable and satellite providers.
China
- China and Qatar on Monday pledged to build a strategic partnership that would result in heightened bilateral practical cooperation. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/1104/c90883-8803954.html
- National Tourism Council (formerly Qatar Tourism Authority)
Qatar Sovereign Fund
- http://www.scmp.com/business/money/markets-investing/article/1021244/qatar-fund-buys-citic-capital (PUBLISHED : Thursday, 23 August, 2012, 12:00am)
- A unit of Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has agreed to acquire a 19.9-percent stake, or 324 million shares, in Lifestyle International Ltd’s dominant shareholder, Real Reward Ltd, for HK$4.78 billion ($616 million). http://www.chinadailyasia.com/hknews/2014-10/21/content_15180370.html, hkej 21oct14 a1, singtao 21oct14 b2, http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1620858/qatari-fund-buys-sogo-store-operator-hk48b, http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201410/1021/HA07A21CEAA.pdf
- http://www.ft.com/fastft/230662/qatar-citic-agree-5bn-investment-deal Qatar's sovereign wealth fund and Chinese conglomerate CITIC Group have agreed to invest $5bn each in projects in China and elsewhere in Asia as the fund seeks to diversify into Asia. hkej 5nov14 a15, Qatar's sovereign wealth fund has joined hands with Chinese investment conglomerate CITICGroup to set up a $10 billion fund that will scout for deals in China, even as the Gulf state'sinvestment arm looks to further expand its presence in Asia, the Qatar Investment Authorityrevealed on Tuesday. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-11/05/content_18868108.htm, http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/11/05/b02-1105.pdf, hket 5nov14 a8, http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201411/1105/HA08B05COWW.pdf, http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20141105/PDF/b5_screen.pdf
- 市場同時關注若局勢惡化，卡塔爾主權財富基金卡塔爾投資局（QIA）在全球資產的動向，例如福士汽車、Tiffany、嘉能可(00805)及農業銀行(01288)等。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20170606/00202_005.html卡塔爾媒體料，卡塔爾一四年在英國的投資最少350億英鎊，包括多幢地標式建築物，如摩天大廈Shard、Harrod's百貨公司及The Savoy Hotel，卡塔爾為首財團一五年續購入倫敦金絲雀碼頭物業。
- 劉鑾鴻（細劉）任主席的利福國際(01212)及利福中國(02136)傳遭主要股東卡塔爾投資局（Qatar Investment Authority，簡稱QIA）悉售持股，套現逾52億元。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20180321/00202_026.html
association
- http://www.qf.org.qa/ Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is a private, non-profit organization that serves the people of Qatar by supporting and operating programs in three core mission areas: education, science and research, and community development.
- arab bureau for the education of gulf states
- https://www.abegs.org/elearning
- aspire academy
- hkej 13feb19 shum article
Company
- Qatar Petroleum (QP) is a state owned petroleum company in Qatar. The company operates all oil and gas activities in Qatar, including exploration, production, refining, transport, and storage.After World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Qatar fell within the British sphere of influence and the first onshore oil concession in the country was awarded in 1935 to British Petroleum's predecessor, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (AIOC). Because of its obligations under the Red Line Agreement, AIOC transferred the concession to an associate company of the Iraq Petroleum Co., Petroleum Development (Qatar) Ltd. (PDQ), which would operate the concession. PDQ was later renamed the Qatar Petroleum Co. (QPC). In October 1938, Dukhan No. 1 was spudded and yielded 4,000 barrels of oil per day by January 1940. However, World War II delayed development until 1947 and the first crude exports occurred in 1949. The first offshore concessions were granted in 1949 to a Canadian Company, the International Marine Oil Company (IMOC), which was a subsidiary of a US company, the Superior Oil Co., and the London-registered Central Mining & Investment Co. In 1952, after IMOC had withdrawn, the Shell Co.-Qatar (SCQ) acquired exploration rights to most offshore territory. In 1960 and 1963, the Idd Al-Shargi and Maydan Mahzam fields were discovered, respectively. The largest offshore field, Bul Hanine, was discovered in 1970 and came onstream in 1972.
- https://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/qatar-petroleum-buys-into-offshore-block-in-south-africa/ Qatar Petroleum entered into an agreement with the French oil giant Total to buy a 25% participating interest in the Exploration Block 11B/12B, offshore South Africa.
- qatar airways
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-08/qatar-airways-plans-to-establish-indian-carrier-with-100-planes
- Qatar Airways announced plans on Monday to buy a 25 percent stake in Russia’s Vnukovo Airport, the third-largest in the Moscow area by passenger numbers.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-qatar-airport/qatar-airways-plans-to-buy-stake-in-russian-airport-as-emir-visits-moscow-idUSKBN1H211O
- rep office in hk launched in oct2013
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160115/00180_013.html 阿拉伯半島電視台於二○一三年八月進軍美國，斥資五億美元（約三十九億港元）在當地啟播新聞頻道，希望挑戰美國傳統主流傳媒。但該台的母公司周二表示，該台將從今年四月三十日起停播，停止營運是由於美國傳媒環境經營困難。該頻道曾被指反猶太和有性別歧視。
- media company based in doha
- echo for trading & contracting & services
- exhibited at 2017 tdc toy fair
- Al-Watan (Arabic: الوطن meaning The Homeland) is a daily morning Arabic language political newspaper based in Doha, Qatar.[1] The paper is one of the three Arabic newspapers in the country along with Al Raya and Al Sharq.Al-Watan was founded in 1995 and was the first newspaper to be launched in Qatar after the Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, abolished press censorship.[3] Its parent company is Dar Al Watan Printing, Publishing and Distribution Company WLL. With the publication of the daily the other leading Qatari Arabic paper Al Raya lost its one-third of its circulation.[4] The 2008 circulation of the daily was 15,000. The former foreign minister, Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, owns half of the newspaper.
- al-ghia jewellery (exhibited at sep19 ubm jewellery fr)
- ghand jewellery (exhibited at sep19 ubm jewellery fr)
- h jewelry trading (exhibited at sep19 ubm jewellery fr)
- echo for trading and contracting services WLL (exhibited at 2020 tdc baby products fr)
industry
- lng
- http://www.reuters.com/article/qatar-ma-lng-idUSL5N1E6047 Qatar will merge state-owned liquefied natural gas producers Qatargas and RasGas Co Ltd, the chief executive of Qatar Petroleum (QP) said on Sunday, in the Gulf state's latest reaction to lower energy prices.
trade and investment environment
- labour
- economist 8may2021 "free to quit" foreign workers get some basic rights
- Qatar’s currency has come under pressure from investors amid rising tensions in the Middle East, stoking worries that an escalating crisis could endanger the Gulf state’s longstanding peg to the US dollar. The Qatari riyal is fixed at a strict rate of about QR3.64 a dollar. But the premium demanded to guarantee future currency trades has rocketed in the past two days, hitting levels last seen during the 2008 oil price collapse. Dollar-riyal 12-month forward points have more than doubled from 202 to 475, according to Bloomberg data. That means traders wanting to exchange riyal for dollars 12 months from now would have to pay QR3.6955 a dollar using outright forward contracts.
https://www.ft.com/content/51b1b664-4ac2-11e7-919a-1e14ce4af89b
People
- Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber bin Mohammed bin Thani Al Thani (born 11 January 1959) (Arabic: حمد بن جاسم بن جبر آل ثاني) is a former politician in Qatar. He was the Prime Minister of Qatar from 3 April 2007 to 26 June 2013, and foreign minister from 11 January 1992 to 26 June 2013.
- Ft interview 16apr16
- http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21699960-kinder-gentler-puritanism-some-other-wahhabi-state
IATA
- http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/qatar-airways-urges-action-gulf-boycott-170612141749614.html The chief executive of Qatar Airways has said the measures taken against Qatari air traffic should be declared illegal. Akbar Al Baker made the comments to Al Jazeera on Monday, a week after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt closed their airspace to Qatari flights as part of a series of measures against Doha amid a major diplomatic rift. The four countries cut diplomatic and transport ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing Doha of backing "terrorism" - charges that Qatar denies.
opec
- https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/03/business/qatar-opec-withdrawal/index.html The small, gas-rich state of Qatar said Monday that it will leave the oil cartel on January 1 after nearly 60 years. The country's state oil company, Qatar Petroleum, made the announcement in a series of tweets. "The withdrawal decision reflects Qatar's desire to focus its efforts on plans to develop and increase its natural gas production," Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the country's newly-appointedminister of state for energy affairs, was cited as saying in one of the tweets.
Usa
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170617/00192_001.html美國國防部近日確認，美國將向卡塔爾出售價值一百二十億美元的戰機。在特朗普咄咄逼人的壓力下，卡塔爾不得不奉上保護費。
- American Airlines is not happy with Qatar Airways' intent to invest. American Airlines CEO Doug Parker sent a letter to employees on Thursday in response to Qatar Airways announcing their offer to acquire a 10 percent stake in the company.In the letter, Parker uses the word "puzzling" to describe Qatar Airways' intention to invest and specifically points out "illegal subsidies" as the reason behind his criticism. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/american-airlines-ceo-writes-a-scathing-response-to-qatar-airways-desire-to-invest.html
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-02/qatar-airways-abandons-plan-to-buy-stake-in-american-airlines
Uk
- Barclays, Mr Varley and its former team of top bankers may be facing sleepless nights for some time to come. The UK’s Serious Fraud Office took the unprecedented step on Tuesday of charging the bank, Mr Varley, Roger Jenkins — head of the investment bank’s Middle East division — and two other senior bankers at the time, Tom Kalaris and Richard Boath, with fraud over the deal that was struck with the Qataris.https://www.ft.com/content/75cd2270-57fd-11e7-9fed-c19e2700005f
Turkey
- Turkey backs isolated Qatar and risks angering Saudi Arabia ft 8jun17
- 以沙特阿拉伯為首的中東多國六月初宣布與卡塔爾斷交，至今已逾一百日。卡塔爾國王塔米周四到訪土耳其，是自斷交風波發生以來首次離境。塔米與土耳其總統埃爾多安在安卡拉的總統府會面，雙方提及解決斷交風波的重要性及加強合作。塔米其後到德國柏林訪問，與總理默克爾會面。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170916/00180_026.html
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-currency-qatar/qatar-and-turkey-central-banks-sign-swap-agreement-qatar-central-bank-idUSKCN1L40NSQatar and Turkey’s central banks have signed a currency swap agreement to provide liquidity and support for financial stability, Qatar’s central bank said on Sunday, days after Turkey’s Gulf ally pledged $15 billion in support.
gulf countries
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40155829 A number of Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.It comes amid heightened tensions between Gulf countries and their near-neighbour, Iran. The Saudi statement accused Qatar of collaborating with "Iranian-backed terrorist groups" in its restive eastern region of Qatif and in Bahrain.The diplomatic withdrawal was first put into motion by Bahrain, then Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Yemen, Libya's eastern-based government and the Maldives all followed suit.
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/arab-states-drawing-up-list-of-demands-for-qatar-1496875243Leading Arab states are drawing up a list of demands that Qatar must meet to return to normal diplomatic and economic relations, including steps to significantly scale back the Al Jazeera media network, said Arab and U.S. officials involved in the discussions.
- https://www.ft.com/content/160a343a-61bc-11e8-a39d-4df188287fff Qatar has banned products imported from the four Arab neighbours that a year ago imposed a regional embargo on the gas-rich state, in a retaliatory move against its rivals. A circular issued by the economy ministry ordered stores to stop selling all products imported from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt. A government statement on Saturday said the ban was “to protect the safety of consumers in the state of Qatar and to combat improper trafficking of goods”.
oman
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40248145 Qatar says it has begun shipping cargo through Oman to bypass restrictions imposed by other Gulf states. Qatar Ports Management Company said direct services to Sohar and Salalah would operate three times a week. Cargo for Qatar is usually shipped to ports in the United Arab Emirates and then loaded onto smaller vessels.
iran
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170606/00180_004.html外界相信，卡塔爾此後將被迫在區內尋找可靠盟友。被視為「沙特死敵」、與歐美國家關係不佳的伊朗，或會正式與卡塔爾結盟。伊朗高層官員昨亦奉勸，各國勿跟隨特朗普跳劍舞，以免令中東進一步陷入危局。
lebanon
- https://in.reuters.com/article/qatar-lebanon-bonds/qatar-to-put-500-million-in-lebanon-bonds-to-support-economy-idINKCN1PF1FG Qatar will invest $500 million in Lebanese government U.S. dollar bonds to support Lebanon’s struggling economy, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.
israel
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-aljazeera-idUSKBN1AM0J6 Israel plans to revoke the media credentials of Al Jazeera TV journalists, close its Jerusalem bureau and pull the Qatar-based station's broadcasts from local cable and satellite providers.
China
- China and Qatar on Monday pledged to build a strategic partnership that would result in heightened bilateral practical cooperation. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/1104/c90883-8803954.html
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-11/03/content_18860134.htm China's central bank announced Monday that it has signed a currency swap deal worth35 billion yuan (about 5.7 billion US dollars) with the central bank of Qatar.
- energy cooperation
- energy cooperation
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-11/05/content_18869482.htm China and Qatar on Tuesday vowed to deepen their oil and gas cooperation during a meeting between Premier Li Keqiang and Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, Emir of Qatar.
- lng
- port
- investors from china
- culture
- 消息指，中國石油(0857)正在與卡塔爾進行深入談判，計劃通過短期和長期協議購買液化天然氣(LNG)。目前價格和數量未有最後確定，但短期交易或涵蓋數百萬噸LNG供應。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/08/09/b03-0809.pdf
- port
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-07/26/content_26219265.htm Shanghai International Port Group Co Ltd, one of China's largest ports by global cargo throughput, has signed a cooperation framework agreement with the Qatari government to provide multimodal transportation services for building sport venues of the 2022 World Cups. Yan Jun, SIPG's president, said that as many Chinese companies will supply products such as building materials, construction machineries, steel structures, power generators, sport facilities, garments, lighting and security equipment to Qatar, the oil-rich country hopes that SIPG could help it build a multimodal transportation platform in China to ensure these goods are efficiently supplied. Under the agreement, a trade center with strong cross-border e-commerce functions will also be established in Qatar as the country sees high demand to improve its abilities in term of building soccer stadiums, public services and security facilities. The Qatari government in May published business cooperation documents listing products including air conditioners, electrical appliances, and telecommunication and mechanical equipment, which it needs to prepare for the World Cup.
- https://www.chinadailyhk.com/articles/191/81/87/1540785941845.html?newsId=52022
The next soccer World Cup, to be held in Qatar, is a good four years away, but China International Marine Containers (Group) Ltd, the country's largest transportation equipment producer by revenue, has started shipping material for the construction of a unique stadium - a world first - at the venue. Earlier this month, CIMC shipped the first batch of 990 prefabricated modules for the Ras Abu Aboud Stadium, one of 12 stadiums to be built for the world's biggest tournament. Manufacturing work is expected to finish in April 2019.
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/04/23/a14-0423.pdf昨日，中國船舶集團有限公司與卡塔爾石油公司通過視頻連線，在中國北京、上海和卡塔爾多哈三地連成一體，以雲簽約方式，正式簽訂了「卡塔爾石油--中國船舶集團LNG船建造項目」（LNG船是一種設計用來運送液化天然氣（LNG）的液貨船，目前只有少數幾個國家的船廠能夠建造），標誌着總金額超200億元人民幣，中國迄今最大造船出口合同終於花落中國船舶集團旗下滬東中華造船（集團）有限公司，開創了中國LNG船建造項目的新紀元。
- investors from china
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20161201/PDF/a7_screen.pdf 中國鐵建國際集團有限公 司與卡塔爾最大的工程公司之一的HBK公司 組成的聯合體近日中標卡塔爾2022年世界杯 主體育場─
- culture
- 中國文化部和卡塔爾駐華大使館昨日在北京聯合舉辦2016中卡文化年發佈會。文化年期間將舉辦涵蓋演出、展覽、影視、攝影、圖書、體育、思想學術等領域的27場活動，其中中方計劃舉辦17場，包括由藝術家蔡國強策展的《藝術怎麼樣？來自中國的當代藝術》展覽、「絲綢之路--中國絲綢藝術展」以及聯合製作電影《一路狂飆》等。卡方則計劃在華舉辦珍寶展、卡塔爾文化周、卡塔爾當代藝術展等10場活動。中卡文化年的開幕演出將於1月24日在卡塔爾首都多哈舉行。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/01/16/a27-0116.pdf
Hong Kong
- ip event in hk
- investors from hk- ip event in hk
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/05/09/b03-0509.pdf
卡塔爾金融中心昨在香港舉行路演，讓本港商界了解卡塔爾的商機。卡塔爾金融中心提供自有的法律、監管、稅務和商業基礎模式，在「一帶一路」政策和2022年舉行的國際足協世界盃的影響下，卡塔爾將為香港提供更多機會。管理局行政總裁YousufMohamedAl-Jaida表示，卡塔爾與香港的關係向來十分密切，「一帶一路」等措施將增進雙方聯繫。香港貿發局亞洲及新興市場首席經濟師何達權出席活動時表示，去年香港出口至卡塔爾的商品超過1億美元，當中電子產品佔比最多，達43%，而進口金額亦達8,800萬美元，當中接近70%為石油。
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20160112/PDF/b2_screen.pdf 鷹君（00041）旗下的朗 廷酒店集團昨公布，將於卡塔爾開設首家酒 店，計劃2018年開幕，該酒店的投資成本約 為4億美元（約54.6億港元），將由RSG集 團興建發展，並由朗廷酒店集團管理。目前 集團已於中東地區簽約，開設三家酒店。
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