Media City Qatar announced on Tuesday that it has signed a strategic partnership with Euronews, one of the most renowned media networks in the world. The agreement is considered an important milestone in Media Citys effort to attract major media networks to Qatar.

Match Hospitality, the worldwide exclusive rights holder of the FIFA Hospitality Program, announced today that pre-sales of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Hospitality Program achieved a record of $90 million. The pre-sales phase overseen by Match Hospitality was limited to FIFA partners and selected groups.

The State of Qatar occupied a high rank in the fields of transparency and fighting corruption. Transparency International published today its Corruption Perceptions Index 2020, which saw Qatar achieve 63 points. The result meant that Qatar is ranked second in the GCC and among Arab countries, and 30th from a total of 180 countries that are featured in the index.

Qatar Development Bank (QDB) on Wednesday took part in the international conference on Development Financing Institutions, held virtually under the theme "Enabling Technology for Sustainable Development" with the participation of financial institutions from Asian and the Pacific. The conference discussed issues of development, the role of technology in addressing the economic and social consequences of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and ways to move forward in the process of development and growth.

Al-Sharq and Al-Raya newspapers highlighted in their editorials Wednesday the meeting of HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Tuesday with President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Duarte Pacheco, who is currently visiting the country. The two sides reviewed areas of cooperation between the State of Qatar and the Inter-Parliamentary Union and means of supporting and developing them.

Ooredoo has been officially designated 'Global Partner of The Year' and 'Digital Partner of The Year' for 2020 by MoneyGram International Inc (MGI), on the strength of the performance of the Ooredoo Money service over the past year. Ooredoo Money secured these awards for its tremendous performance during 2020, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, whereby it guaranteed customers the digital options they need to send money across the world.

Football fans around the world await the FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2020, which will be hosted by Doha from 4 to 11 February, in two of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 stadiums. The tournament, which Qatar is hosting for the second time in a row, provides an ideal opportunity to test the readiness of two World Cup stadiums in a global event. The Education City Stadium and the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium, which was inaugurated on December 18th, during its hosting of the final of the 48th edition of The Amir Cup.

Today, Education Above All Foundation (EAA) along with its partners, launches the #BuildBackEducation campaign, in the lead-up to the 3rd International Day of Education on 24 January 2021. The campaign calls on the international community to support the important cause of building back education in 2021, which should be put at the forefront of the global COVID-19 recovery process.