Malaysia Building Society Bhd (MBSB) is poised to turn into a full-fledged Islamic bank, having received the Finance Minister’s green light to acquire the entire interest in Qatar Islamic Bank’s subsidiary Asian Finance Bank Bhd.

It appears to be third time lucky, following the aborted proposed three-way merger with CIMB Group Holdings"...

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani arrived in Kuwait on Wednesday for an unscheduled visit amid a Gulf crisis triggered by the cut-off of ties between Doha and four Arab states.

In June, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed diplomatic relations with Qatar, accusing Doha of supporting terrorism.

The Qatari minister met"...

UAE’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash reiterated that Qatar’s way out of the current crisis is based on the 13 demands presented by the countries fighting terrorism, urging Doha to come to Riyadh willing to negotiate the crisis with the quartet.

Gargash stated in a series of tweets on Tuesday that the sovereignty slogans raised by Qatar at the beginning of the crisis are insufficient, adding: “I wished Qatar"...

Back in April 2002, US Marine Corps General Anthony Zinni arrived in Ramallah, meeting with then-besieged Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, hoping to hammer out a truce, followed by peace, between him and his arch-enemy, Ariel Sharon.

Those talks famously collapsed but Arafat milked them till the end, perhaps wrongly believing that the US was using Zinni to turn a new page with him and mend broken fences since outbreak of the second intifada"...

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Ts.Munkh-Orgil, the Mongolian Minister of Foreign Affairs, received Tuesday Mr Sultan bin Salmeen al-Mansouri, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Qatar to Mongolia.
The dignitaries exchanged views on Mongolia-Qatar relations and cooperation.

The Ambassador conveyed to Mr Munkh-Orgil greetings from Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the Foreign Minister of Qatar, and then noted that his country intends to expand cooperation with Asian countries.

Mr Sultan"...

Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) has announced that Qatar Sustainability Week 2017 will be held under the patronage of HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani.
The initiative, which hosts numerous sustainability events across the country, will take place from October 28 to November 4.
Qatar Sustainability Week grants stakeholders from the public and private sectors an opportunity to promote the nation’s sustainability vision and address society’s"...

A book addressing Qatar's political predicament and its tampering with Gulf security has been published by Al-Mezmaah Studies & Research Center.

The book comes as part of a series of publications and research papers issued by the Abu Dhabi-based think-tank's researchers on an array of topics of central importance to the Arab world.

It starts with a foreword"...

The truths behind the Qatari regime's terror funding and numerous other malicious acts against its own people and the region have been exposed in the fifth episode of the 'Terrorism…Facts and Evidence' program televised by Sharjah Channel.

Other misdeeds of the regime exposed by the channel include tampering with the state and people's financial capabilities, indulging in suspicious transactions to buy loyalties by misusing"...

Qatar’s Defence Ministry announced on Saturday the conclusion of a joint exercise between the Ahmed Bin Mohammed Military College and the British Armed Forces; the third between the two countries in a month. The Directorate of Moral Guidance at the Ministry of Defence said in a statement that the exercise, which was held at the Sennybridge Training Camp in Brecon, Wales, lasted three weeks.

The exercise “focused on training the candidate"...