New Delhi, July 2 -- DOHA - Foreign companies opened offices, broke ground on facilities, and signed manufacturing agreements in Qatar at a pace that the country's investment promotion agency described Wednesday as its strongest year on record. Invest Qatar's annual report counted 373 new projects in 2025 - a 52 percent jump from the year before - generating $3.4 billion in committed capital expenditure and 15,051 jobs, Arab News reported.

built-from-scratch operations that require a real bet on Qatar's long-term viability rather than the lower-commitment entry of acquiring an existing business. Nearly half the deals were classified as medium to high-technology investments, a composition that Qatar's government has been deliberately engi...