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TOPSHOT - A health worker prepares a syringe to inoculate a volunteer with a COVID-19 vaccine produced by the Chinese Sinopharm during its trial at the Clinical Studies Center of the Cayetano Heredia University in Lima on December 09, 2020. (Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP)
China 'vaccine diplomacy': A global charm offensive
LIMA: A health worker prepares a syringe to inoculate a volunteer with a COVID-19 vaccine produced by the Chinese Sinopharm during its trial at the Clinical Studies Center of the Cayetano Heredia University in Lima. - AFP BEIJING: As wealthy countries scramble to buy up the limited supply of big-name coronavirus vaccines, China is stepping in to offer its homegrown jabs to poorer countries. But the largesse is not entirely altruistic, with...
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Kuwait posts KD 108m current account surplus for Q2: CBK
KUWAIT: Kuwait recorded a current account surplus of KD 108 million ($357 million) in the second quarter of 2020, the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) said on Wednesday. The surplus fell by KD 112 million ($369 million) from KD 220 million ($726 million) recorded in the earlier quarter, representing a 50 percent drop, according to a press release.The drop is due to a dip of KD 2.2 billion ($7.2 billion) in the value of total earnings on the credit...
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Vaccine drive awaits global regulatory approval: Minister
Dr Basel Al-Sabah KUWAIT: Kuwait will start administering shots of a coronavirus vaccine to its population as soon as the jab is given the green light by regulatory agencies around the world, Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah said yesterday. Hoping the vaccine gets the regulatory go-ahead before the end of the year, the minister told the press that Kuwait's vaccination campaign would be a multi-phased approach likely to last for a year,...
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UN agencies applaud Kuwait's anti-corruption cooperation
KUWAIT: Representatives of the United Nations, the UN Development Program (UNDP) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) appreciated efforts of the Kuwaiti government to promote transparency and combat corruption in collaboration with their agencies. Kuwait is one of the countries that have taken important measures to manage the ongoing pandemic by mobilizing the necessary resources to face the health crisis, avoid global economic collapse...
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Dasman Diabetes Institute wins Al-Maktoum Award
KUWAIT: The Dasman Diabetes Institute won the award of HH Sheikh Hamdan Al-Maktoum for the best medical institution in the Arab world. "The institute had been selected for the award of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Al-Maktoum as the best institute among many medical and research centers and institutions in the Arab world," said Director General of Dasman Institute Dr Qais Al-Duwairi.In a press statement yesterday, Duwairi and all employees of the...
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Abdullah Al-Nouri Charity opens school for Syrian refugees
SANLIURFA, Turkey: Abdullah Al-Nouri Charity opens a school for Syrian refugees yesterday. - KUNA ANKARA: Sheikh Abdullah Al-Nouri Charity Society announced opening an intermediate school for Syrian refugees in Sanliurfa city in southern Turkey yesterday. In a speech at the school's opening ceremony, head of the society Jamal Al-Nouri said that HH the late Amir and Kuwaiti charity societies played a big role in easing the suffering of Syrian...
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Life in Kuwait in the Thirties
Sheikh Mubarak Kiosk, one of the most important historical places in Kuwait, founded in 1897 by the seventh ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah (1840-1915). By Mahmoud ZakariaThe sounds of crashing waves, chainsaws, hammers, porters, boats coming and going, carpenters, blacksmiths and workers was the daily soundtrack of the coast of Kuwait in the 1930s, which did not stop except when the call for noon prayer was made.The coast of Kuwait was...
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Signing in Kuwaiti
Jaber Al-Kandari By Nawara FattahovaSign language is different in different countries, and is not a universal language as most people believe. Kuwait Times interviewed two Kuwaiti sign language trainers to learn more - Jaber Al-Kandari, Chief Operating Officer at DIFA Kuwait, sign language expert and trainer; and Bader Al-Doukhi, a former educator of the deaf and Kuwaiti Sign Language interpreter and trainer. Doukhi has published books about...
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Us vs them
By Jamie Etheridgeopinions or editorials about life in Kuwait as an expatriate can be a tricky business. On the one hand, we earn our bread and butter here. Most of us have chosen to be here, boarded a flight, taken a job, built a life. We owe our livelihoods and in some cases our families and friends to Kuwait. On the other hand, Kuwait is no easy place for expatriates.Over the last several years, the government has grown more unwelcoming....
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Why aren't women elected to parliament?
By Sahar Moussafive electoral districts in Kuwait, 395 candidates competed for the 50 seats in parliament last Saturday. Thirty-three of the candidates were women - the highest number of female candidates in Kuwait's history since women were granted the right to vote and run for office in 2006. Out of 567,694 eligible voters, 273,940 were male (48.3 percent) and 293,754 female (51.7 percent), according to official interior ministry...
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Photo of the Day
View of a mosque and high-rises in Kuwait City on a clear winter day. – Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
Gingerbread house models are pictured at the ArkDes, Swedenís national centre for architecture and design, during this year's Gingerbread House 2020 competition with the theme 'Distance', on December 7, 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden. - A usually busy annual Christmas competition to build elaborate gingerbread houses held by Stockholm's national centre of architecture and design -- ArkDes -- is taking place virtually this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With more than one hundred entries from members of the public based around the theme of distance, staff at the museum have produced 3D scans of every entry. While members of the public would usually come to visit the exhibition in the Swedish capital, due the the Covid-19 pandemic, the gingerbread houses are stored at the museum and fans can visit ArkDes's website to view the entries, which include models of Sweden's state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, climate activist Greta Thunberg, gnomes wearing surgical masks and families making the video calls that have become a more common way to stay in touch since the pandemic's start. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)
Swedish Gingerbread House Focuses on 'Distance'
Gingerbread house models are pictured at the ArkDes, Sweden's national center for architecture and design, during this year's Gingerbread House 2020 competition with the theme 'Distance' in Stockholm, Sweden.-AFP photos Since 1990 Gingerbread House Exhibition has been marked as a yearly event at ArkDes, Sweden's national center for architecture and design in Stockholm, Sweden. However, amid coronavirus this year's incarnation of Gingerbread...
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LIVERPOOL: Police officers face protesters outside the Liver Building in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during an 'Enough is Enough' anti-immigrant rally. — AFP
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