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MANILA, Philippines – Leylah Fernandez, enjoying top form, delivered a stunning upset against No. 5 Qinwen Zheng of China, 7-5, 6-3, to barge into the quarterfinal round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open in Doha Wednesday.
MADRID – Rafael Nadal on Wednesday (Thursday Manila time) was forced to shelve his plans to return to action at next week's Qatar Open, admitting he is "not ready to compete".
Al Jazeera said Sunday two of its Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip were killed in an Israeli strike on their car, in what the Qatar-based media network claimed was a "targeted killing".
MANILA, Philippines — Latvia’s Tina Graudina and Anastasija Samoilova showed how tenacious their seven-year partnership have become by beating Spain’s Daniela Alvarez Mendoza and Tania Moreno Matveeva, 21-14, 21-18, to reign as the newest women’s champions of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge yesterday at the Nuvali Sand Courts in Sta. Rosa City, Laguna.
Naman Ramachandran Tatino Films, a French production and consultancy company involved in industry events in Asia and Europe, has teamed with Kazakhstan-based Alternativa Film Project and the Philippines’ QCinema Project Market for three film residencies. The partnership will yield two Pop Up film residencies called the Pop Up Alternativa Awards for filmmakers from Central Asia and one Pop Up QCFC (Quezon City Film Commission) x QCinema Award for Southeast Asian filmmakers to develop their upcoming film projects. Launched by Tatino Films in 2019, the Pop Up Film Residency is an international network of residencies for feature film projects that works with the likes of Cannes, Eurimages, Brazil’s BrLab and the Doha Film Institute among others.
PARIS, France — Boasting good relations with both Western governments and Hamas, the emirate of Qatar has emerged as the key power in efforts to release the hostages seized by the Palestinian militant group from Israel even as other states show readiness to help.
In 2014, a smart guy brought in nine Bosnia-Herzegovina and several Senegalese teenagers to Doha to line them up for the national basketball team, avoiding classification as naturalized because they were issued Qatari passports before turning 16. The gamble was the “kids” would mature to become the next Bojan Bogdanovic or Gorgui Dieng. Transporting teeners from home to a foreign country was easy because all it took was money. But transforming them into basketball stars was a risky proposition.