By Arvind Nair MALAYSIAN Ambassador Dato Shahrul Ikram invited Qatari companies to take the huge opportunities available in his country to invest and told Malaysian businessmen to make use of the prospects in Qatar.

Idaho’s State Board of Education will form a search committee to look for a replacement for University of Idaho President Tim White who was named the University of California at Riverside chancellor Thursday morning.

In mid-May the Archdiocese of Philadelphia completed its two-year, $17-million conversion of the former St. John Neumann High School in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia into 75 independent living apartments for low-income senior older adults.

BRUNSWICK COUNTYSchool board goesattorney shoppingThe Brunswick County school board is once again considering whether to keep on Joseph Causey, its attorney of nearly 14 years.

Miguel Thames, a managing director of Prudential Fixed Income Management, Newark, was appointed head of its institutional business. He is responsible for consultant relations and for sales and client services.