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Zain receives 'Kuwait's Fastest Fixed Broadband Network' award for Q1-Q2
KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, received 'Kuwait's Fastest Fixed Broadband Network' award for Q1-Q2 2020 from Speedtest by Ookla, the global leader in transparent Internet testing applications, data and analysis. Zain took this opportunity to launch a limited time offer with unlimited 5G Internet downloads along with a number of revolutionary Internet devices, including Huawei's next generation of fixed routers;...
A screen (L) displaying share prices is seen at the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta on August 6, 2020. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP)
European stocks flat as tech losses offset data optimism
JAKARTA: A screen (left) displaying share prices is seen at the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta.-AFP LONDON: European shares were largely flat yesterday as renewed US-China tensions hit technology stocks, but a slowing decline in China's producer prices and rising oil prices limited losses. The pan-European STOXX 600 index edged up 0.1 percent at the start of a week that could see subdued trading as traders head out for summer holidays in...
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Kuwait records 687 new COVID-19 cases, four deaths
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health said yesterday 687 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) while four persons died of the disease in the past 24 hours. MoH spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said that the total registered infections reached 72,400 while deaths increased to 482. He added that 443 cases of the new infections were Kuwaiti citizens, or 64.48 percent, and 244 were non-Kuwaitis, or 35.52 percent. The MoH had...
Relief workers examine medical equipment unloaded from a truck carrying donations from Kuwait to Lebanese hospitals.
Kuwait delivers medical devices to Lebanon’s hospitals
Relief workers examine medical equipment unloaded from a truck carrying donations from Kuwait to Lebanese hospitals. BEIRUT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) on Sunday delivered medical equipment and supplies to hospitals affected by the blast that recently rocked Beirut port in Lebanon. The society’s field team visited five affected hospitals and was briefed on their conditions, and handed those facilities the medical devices and supplies,...
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Unemployed expats look for new work while struggling to survive
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait has revealed that more than 25,075 Filipinos have lost their jobs or left Kuwait as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Exact numbers of those who have lost their jobs permanently or temporarily and who have left Kuwait for good are not available. The embassy is unable to determine how many may have lost their jobs but remain in Kuwait, looking for new employment.“We’ve got the...
KUWAIT: Lebanese residents donate blood for the victims of Beirut’s blast at Kuwait Central Blood Bank during a campaign organized by the Banking Association on Sunday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
PM: Kuwait eager to help Lebanon; world vows €250m
KUWAIT: Lebanese residents donate blood for the victims of Beirut’s blast at Kuwait Central Blood Bank during a campaign organized by the Banking Association on Sunday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT/PARIS: Kuwait stands ready to support Lebanon by any means necessary in the wake of a horrific port explosion that ravaged Beirut, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said on Sunday. Kuwait’s support for the...
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Sabah Hospital team conducts ‘successful’ surgery
By Abdellatif SharaaKUWAIT: General Surgery and Obesity Consultant at Sabah Hospital Dr Mohammad Al-Saleemi revealed that a medical team succeeded in carrying out a rare and complicated operation on a patient’s abdomen and colon. The procedure follows two previous surgeries performed on the patient; a woman in her 50s who is suffering from hypertension and diabetes in addition to depression, he explained. “Such procedures are usually...
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Firefighters put out fuel truck blaze
KUWAIT: Five Kuwaiti firefighting squads have extinguished a large fire that broke out in a fuel truck after it overturned on Jahra Road, the country’s fire agency said. The fire of the truck, which carried 36,000 liters of diesel fuel, was put under control within a relatively short period of time, the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate said in a press release on Sunday. However, the truck’s driver was injured in the accident and was...
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A way of life
one receives messages on social media that are meaningful and have a purpose - in other words, not everything is bad. I agree that mobile phones are now very important in our lives to the point that I do not exaggerate to say that it is the third element without which we cannot live - blood, oxygen and mobile phones.Of course, phones and their social media applications are multi-edged, not double-edged only. They can be used for many...
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Govt, Assembly near deal on plan to cut expat numbers
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The government and the National Assembly appear to be nearing to approve a plan that envisages short-, mid- and long-term measures to drastically cut the number of expats in the country, with the government proposing to deport as many as 360,000 workers in the short-term.Member of the Assembly's manpower resources development committee MP Osama Al-Shaheen said the government's plan calls to deport 120,000 illegal workers,...
KARO, Indonesia: Mount Sinabung spews thick ash and smoke into the sky yesterday. —AFP
Mt Sinabung blasts smoke, ash into sky
KARO, Indonesia: Mount Sinabung spews thick ash and smoke into the sky yesterday. —AFP MEDAN, Indonesia: Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupted yesterday, belching a massive column of ash and smoke 5,000 m into the air and plunging local communities into darkness with a thick layer of debris. The volcano on Sumatra island has been rumbling since 2010 and saw a deadly eruption in 2016. Activity had picked up in recent days, including a pair of...
A woman mourns during a funerary procession for Lebanese army corporal Estephan Rouhana at his hometown of Batroun in northern Lebanon on August 10, 2020, after he died in the August 4 massive blast at the port of Beirut. - According to Lebanon's health ministry, over 150 people were killed by the huge chemical explosion that hit the capital's port in the country's worst peacetime disaster, while 6,000 were wounded and around 20 remained missing, leaving behind a 43-metre (141 foot) deep crater at the site. (Photo by Ibrahim CHALHOUB / AFP)
Pressure mount on Lebanese government
BATROUN: A woman mourns during a funerary procession for Lebanese army corporal Estephan Rouhana at his hometown of Batroun in northern Lebanon yesterday, after he died in the August 4 massive blast at the port of Beirut. _ AFP BEIRUT: Two members of Lebanon's government have quit over a deadly blast that unleashed public rage against the country's ruling class, with protesters and police fighting running battles in the capital for a second day....
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