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The Ministry of Transport & Communications (MoTC) and Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) yesterday organised a virtual forum entitled ‘Digitization of SMEs: An Alternative To Survive’. The event introduced SMEs in Qatar to the era of digital transformation. Shifting from decision-based traditional models to data-driven models, the world of business needs to adapt to the new practices to increase its efficiency in a rapidly changing economy. The forum featured speakers from HBKU, and MoTC. It reviewed best international and regional practices in digital transformation using cloud services in the business and introduced a success story from Qatar and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) challenges and dealing with recent trends in digitization and automation.

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H E Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari, Minister of Commerce and Industry; and Datuk Darell Leiking, Malaysia’s Minister of International Trade and Industry, have witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Qatar’s Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) and the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA). 

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DOHA: Qatar Chamber hosted yesterday a delegation from Singapore specialised in security systems, tech solutions and cyber security. Read the full article here.

To simplify employment visa procedures and protect workers’ rights, a new Qatar Visa Center (QVC) will be opened in Manila, Philippines, this month, said senior official of the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs. Read the full article here.

The bilateral trade volume between Qatar and Singapore reached at $7.2bn (QR26.2bn) in 2018, witnessing a year-on-year growth of 10 percent. With this remarkable growth in trade volume, Qatar has become Singapore’s third largest trading partner within the GCC countries, said a senior official of Singapore Business Council Qatar (SBCQ) at a network event held on Wednesday. Read the full article here.