Ooredoo, a leading international telecommunications company based in Qatar, has announced plans to invest about $800 million for a 49% stake in Zankore, an artificial intelligence computing platform being developed in Indonesia, thus marking its expansion into AI infrastructure in Southeast Asia.
Diplomatic efforts to ease tensions between the United States and Iran gathered momentum on Tuesday, with Qatar saying negotiations have reached "very progressive stages" and draft proposals for a possible agreement are now being circulated, even as Iran and Oman continued talks on future shipping arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz.
Qatar welcomed its first leisure charter flight from Yerevan, Armenia, at Hamad International Airport on August 28, marking a step forward in the growth of inbound leisure tourism and diversification of its international visitor markets. Operated by FlyOne in partnership with Rustar Tour Operator, the weekly service connects Yerevan and Doha using an Airbus A320.
Qatar stepped up regional mediation efforts on Thursday, with Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani pressing Iran to restore freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, even as Tehran insisted that reopening the strategic waterway would depend on conditions being met by the United States.
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani is due to visit Tehran on Thursday in a fresh diplomatic push to ease tensions between the US and Iran and help restore freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
Swedish industrial technology company Statetron has announced plans to develop a 10-hectare industrial facility in Qatar combining artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, energy storage and autonomous logistics in a manufacturing system designed to scale to multi-gigawatt capacity.
Al Meera Consumer Goods Company, a leading national retailer and property developer in Qatar, has signed up Yardi, a leading property management software developer, to support the next phase of its retail property management and leasing operations through its cloud-based retail platform.
Inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Qatar rose 3.3% by the end of Q1 2026 compared with Q4 2025, reaching QAR172.2 billion ($47.24 billion), according to results of the FDI Survey released Sunday by National Planning Council (NPC).
Attacks on commercial shipping resumed in the Strait of Hormuz, with two vessels struck in separate incidents that have heightened fears over the security of the shipping lane and threatened to derail recent diplomatic efforts to reduce tensions.
Parsons Corporation said it has secured a three-year contract to provide construction management as well as construction supervision services for the Lusail City Infrastructure Program, a master-planned development north of Doha, Qatar.
