Word: doha
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sweating outside of Al-Jazeera’s Doha headquarters, I reflected on all this; and then I trudged inside to meet the station’s Editor-in-Chief. He told me something that will test whether media outlets change to meet the demands of their consumers once and for all: Al-Jazeera is launching an English channel this coming spring...
CELSO AMORIM, Brazil's Foreign Minister, on the framework deal agreed between World Trade Organization members aimed at reviving the Doha round of trade negotiations
...Chinese firms are already clamoring to legally make the drug. Says Lu Xinyu, marketing manager of drug-maker Beautiful Pearl Group, "I can't imagine how vicious the competition will be." - Matthew Forney/Beijing Floating On Air Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based independent broadcaster, is weighing a public offering on Doha's stock exchange within two or three years. To bolster its appeal to viewers and investors, an English-language version is planned as well as new documentary and children's channels...
...canceled his flagship Sunday night show, Namedni (The Other Day), which had run for 11 years. Two days earlier, the program had carried an exclusive interview with the widow of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, killed in Qatar last February, allegedly by two Russian agents now on trial in Doha . NTV ordered Parfyonov not to rebroadcast the segment. Parfyonov complied, but daily newspaper Kommersant ran both the interview and NTV's written order to kill it. The channel didn't hesitate to cancel the show. "Parfyonov has had it coming," Andrei Yegorshev, host of Obozrevatel, NTV's weekly media-review program...
...Brahimi's plan picks up support, they might still be able to steer Iraq toward democratic elections by January 2005. "It's unrealistic to think that in one year everything is going to be settled," Abizaid told TIME in his low-ceilinged office at Centcom headquarters in Doha, Qatar, after the visit to Iraq. "Yes, there is still violence and still some instability, but ... there is a lot of progress that shouldn't be overlooked...