Doha: Qatar News Agency (QNA) has launched its news services in three new languages-French, German, and Spanish-in the implementation of its plan to expand its services to encompass numerous world languages.
The launch of the various languages service comes within the framework of upgrading the work in QNA in conformity with the substantial global evolution in accessing the audience worldwide, in addition to communicating the voice of Qatar in all languages and promoting Qatar as a sporting, tourist, and economic destination.
With the launch of this service, QNA offers its news services in five international languages, mainly Arabic, English, French, German, and Spanish.
QNA launches its news services at an extremely important time, nearly two months before the country hosts the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, and through this service, the agency seeks to communicate with a substantial segment of a wide spectrum of the audience who are coming to Qatar, as well as World Cup followers worldwide.
QNA Director-General Ahmed Saeed Jabor Al Rumaihi said that the launch of the new service offers the readers who speak these languages everything they want to know about Qatar, including its economic, social, tourist, and cultural policies, enabling QNA to be the gate for readers to have a closer look into Qatar.
He clarified that the new languages were meticulously selected because the people who speak these languages are associated with football and their attendance at the World Cup Qatar 2022, in addition to the number of speakers of these languages worldwide.
Al Rumaihi underlined that the broadcasting of news in various languages will be around the clock through professional translators operating to translate the news that concerns the speakers of these languages.
