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SUNDAY MARCH 14, 2010 RABI AL-AWWAL 28, 1431 I Newsline I Nationline I Businessline I Lifeline I Sportsline VOL. 4 NO. 1287 QR 2 QT’s new avatar builds bridges between East & West

AJIT KUMAR JHA the colour component of our much more on the Internet. Nation section. No more umn along with more space DOHA editions. In a post-television Snazzy look, Typefaces slip in and out of tokenism in the name of devoted to blogs added to world where people are visu- fashion like in every other women on International our Analysis page. We have Dear Readers, ally hooked on to plasma and Smart ideas area of design, but right now Women’s Day. Run exclu- even introduced a ‘Kool Kit’ Welcome to the new avatar LCD monitors, the grey drab there is a Georgia revolution sively by women staffers, at the right hand bottom col- of Qatar Tribune. The look of old black and white As a mirror of the going on. Whether you log on who have joined our team in umn of the Analysis page Sanskrit word ‘avatar’ means newspapers is surely out, the nation, the new to the NYT website or that of a big way, the gender-specif- which is devoted to ideas that incarnation, or to be more glossy mix of cyan and Qatar Tribune the architecture magazine, ic page will be concerned school students grapple with accurate, manifestation, or magenta is in. reflects Qatar’s “Metropolis”, it is Georgia all with problems facing differ- in schools, for instance, what appearance. Since Qatar We begin by introducing a dynamic changes. the way, defining a modern, ent kinds of women. Girls are is the purpose of teaching Tribune has turned three- burgundy masthead, which Look out for the liberal, forward looking, free- not only outsmarting boys in subjects like Algebra. We and-a-half years old this some might interpret as new focus on dom loving, irreverential, no- schools, colleges and the start with Algebra (etymo- month, it is time for us to get Qatarising the paper. After women, youth, nonsense, pesky yet not workplace in Qatar as in the logically derived from the out of our nappies and don a all, it is the Tribune, the education, culture, flashy, newspaper. rest of the world, they are Arabic word Al Jabr) to new appearance, the fresh popular champion of diverse environment, New style brings in new indeed redefining the very remind the readers that the look of a frisky youngster communities living in health and sports ideas. With change in form, blueprint of the ‘brave new subject originated in the ready to strike it big. As you Qatar, both citizens and editorial content is bound to world.’ Arabic world. pore over the QT pages, you expatriates. inspiration for the burgundy typeface: from Kepler to change. In terms of struc- We are also planning to With the new sociological will discover that a new Since QT is a mirror for this masthead comes from our Georgia. Ever since the ture, we have inserted our add new features for our profile of our readers come snazzy look combines a incredibly dynamic nation, Arabic sister publication, Al Boston-based designer, Nation section into our main younger readers, teenagers new thrust areas — more smart new design with fresh the dramatic changes in Watan. So from our more Mathew Carter, developed section. However, Business, and school and college stu- articles devoted to education, editorial content and an Qatar, particularly in its econ- prosaic black and white mast- Georgia for Microsoft in Sports and Chill Out contin- dents, who are swelling the health, the environment, iconoclastic style with inno- omy, society, culture, educa- head we have transformed 1996, this elegant, quietly ue to appear as independent ranks of our ever growing social and cultural themes. vative ideas. tion, healthcare and sports into a new look defined as idiosyncratic typeface has sections. readership. We have provid- In our Entertainment section First, a quick summary of are reflected in the changes in ruddier than the cherry, become the most fashionable We have introduced a new ed space for E-mail letters, we plan to cover cinema our redesign: Being a young Qatar Tribune, in QT’s pages, sweeter than the berry. typeface both for newly page on gender issues about ‘tweets’ and SMS messages paper, we decided to increase even in its new design. The We have even switched our designed newspapers and the new woman in our in the ‘Have Your Say’ col- CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 8

DOW JONES 10,624 QE 6816.21 +12.85 +2.16 13TH CHAMPIONSHIPS IN DOHA HMC to SENSEX 17,166.62 CURRENCY -1.34 Indian rupee 12.39 double Philippine peso 12.37 HOT WEATHER 0 0 HIGH: 36 C | LOW: 21 C Defar claims 4th world nursing Newsline staff AILYN AGONIA DOHA Aussies win hockey World Cup indoor gold in a row THE Hamad Medical Australia proved Corporation (HMC) will dou- third time lucky Olympic champion ble the strength of its nursing as they won the staff by 2012 to go with the men’s field Bryan Clay of USA institution’s major expansion hockey World plans that include opening Cup after a 24 defends indoor seven new hospitals soon. year hiatus with heptathlon title About 5000 nurses are cur- a 2-1 win over rently employed at the HMC defending cham- but only six percent of them pions Germany YASH MUDGAL are Qataris. on Saturday. DOHA Luke Doerner scored the winning About 5000 penalty corner 11 minutes from ETHIOPIAN won a nurses are the end after Edward Ockenden record fourth consecutive women’s currently had put the Kookaburras ahead in world indoor 3000m title at the employed at the the sixth minute and Moritz Furste 13th IAAF World Indoor HMC but only six drew level for Germany in the Championships in Athletics at the percent of them 48th. (AFP) Aspire Academy, in Doha on are Qataris. Saturday. Thus, to correct this imbal- Defar, who won Olympic 5000m ance, Qatar’s leading health- Clinton rebukes Netanyahu gold at the Games and a care provider would intensify bronze in Beijing, clocked 8min its scholarship programmes US Secretary of 51.17sec. “I’m very happy with this to lure more locals to the State Hillary race and my fourth gold medal,” she nursing profession, the Clinton has said. Executive Director of rebuked Israel The Ethiopian, finished 0.68sec Nursing, Dr Nabila al Meer, for plans to ahead of Kenyan world 5000m said on Saturday. build new settler champion in sil- ’s Meseret Defar (left) and compatriot and bronze medallist Sentayehu Ejigu celebrate their win in the women’s Talking to Qatar Tribune homes, saying it ver. Defar’s teammate Sentayehu 3000m final at the Aspire Dome, in Doha, on Saturday. (AFP) on the sidelines of a function sent a “deeply Ejigu took bronze. held to celebrate the 1st GCC negative signal” “I changed my tactics today. First, for well for me. Now I am looking Defar was happy to bide her time, pushed the pace with eight laps to Nursing Day in Qatar at HMC about Israel’s I was thinking about a fast race, but for world records at 5000m and sitting on the coat-tails of go, taking Kenyan Sylvia Kibet with Education Centre, Dr Nabila ties to its top ally. then I saw it will be better to wait 10000m in Diamond Leagues,” she Portuguese frontrunners Jessica In unusually harsh words, Clinton with the final kick, and that worked added. Augusto and Sara Moreira. Augusto CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 8 CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 8 told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington strongly objected to the announcement made during a landmark trip to Israel by US Vice President Joe Biden. (AFP) Automobile market revs up, back in top gear in Qatar

LANI ROSE R DIZON the sales picking up, customers, ning of 2010. “Based on the mar- countries. Banks becoming more that the actual growth would be DOHA who had opted to delay purchasing ket information, more than 4,000 liberal in granting personal loans seen in the last quarter of the year. their dream cars because of the brand new cars were sold in the in recent times is also pushing up Hopefully, we’ll see the start of Today in Qatar THE automobile market in Qatar economic uncertainty last year, automobile sales in the country. recovery by June, and 2011 will seems to have shrugged off its now feel confident to fulfil their Till recently, banks were strict fol- really be the year of growth,” he 9:00am CITES Meeting 2009 sluggishness and is slowly dream. Many of them Qatar Exclusive lowing retail/corporate funding added. 10:00am Qatar Career Fair moving into the top gear once Tribune talked to said they were QT guidelines and were overly cau- Tarek S Abouhana, general sales again. With buyers returning to keen to buy new cars instead of tious and selective in approving manager of Qatar Automobiles 8:30am QNHR workshop on humanitarian the market to avail the attractive going for the second-hand ones. country in January alone. This fig- personal and vehicle loans. Now, Company (a subsidiary of NBK), international law promotions offered by the car National Sales Manager for ure includes all new cars of differ- we see most banks have a positive the exclusive distributor of 4:00pm World Indoor Athletics meet companies, smile is back on the Nissan at the Saleh Alhamad ent brands. There are clear signs of outlook on financing relaxing Mitsubishi Motors and faces of car dealers. Almana Co said that their new car the automobile market recovering norms on retail loans. Though 6:00pm Qatar Stars League While the sellers are happy with sales had picked since the begin- in Qatar as compared to other Gulf things are improving, we still feel CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 8