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Online dating changes lives and the economy
NEW YORK: Online dating is not only transforming the way people hook up, it is changing the way single people spend their money and shaping the nature of household spending, according to one investor taking an interest in the emerging sector. "It's driving pretty much everything, if you think about all the things people spend money on around finding a romantic partner, courting them, getting married, having kids," said Daniel McMurtrie, the...
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Zain Kuwait signs MoU with Tamdeen Real Estate Company
KUWAIT: Zain Kuwait CEO Eaman Al-Roudhan and Tamdeen Real Estate Company CEO Mohammed Abdulhamid Al-Marzouq sign the MoU KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tamdeen Real Estate Company, a subsidiary of Tamdeen Group Company, to offer the latest and most advanced 5G-connected solutions to power the three residential towers of the Tamdeen Square real...
Staff and supporters raise their clinched fists during a protest in support of broadcaster ABS-CBN in Manila on February 10, 2020. - Philippine government lawyers moved on February 10 to strip the nation's biggest media group of its operating franchise in what campaigners branded a fresh attack on press freedom under President Rodrigo Duterte. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP)
Philippines moves to shut down top broadcaster
MANILA: Staff and supporters raise their clinched fists during a protest in support of broadcaster ABS-CBN in Manila yesterday. - AFP MANILA: The Philippine government yesterday urged the Supreme Court to cancel the franchises of the country's top broadcaster, ABS-CBN Corp, a move slammed by opposition lawmakers and activists as an attack designed to intimidate independent media. The government said the 66-year-old entertainment and media...
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (L), leader of Germany's conservative CDU party, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pose during a meeting with their party's leadership on February 10, 2020 in Berlin. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
Merkel party in crisis after 'heir' quits over German far right row
BERLIN: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (left), leader of Germany's conservative CDU party, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pose during a meeting with their party's leadership yesterday. - AFP BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party and her plans to stay on until 2021 were plunged into disarray yesterday, after her heir-apparent gave up her leadership ambitions in a deepening crisis over ties between the centre and far right. Annegret...
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Girl's drowning sparks water riot in thirsty South African township
QWAQWA: Eight-year-old Musa and her older sister Moleboheng trudged down the ravine with buckets and drum bottles to fetch water from a filthy stream because they were thirsty and tired of waiting for trucks meant to deliver emergency water that never showed up. But Musa never returned, her mother Phindile Mbele recalled, choking back tears. The little girl drowned in the stream, which is thick with sewage, mud and algae, probably pulled down...
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NBK and Zain sign agreement to serve Kuwait's biggest SME customer base
Hamad Al-Marzouq and Mohammed Al-Othman sign the agreement KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait and Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced the signing of an agreement to offer a number of discounts and unique benefits to their Small and Medium Enterprises customers who represent the biggest joint base of SME customers in the State of Kuwait. The signing ceremony was held in the presence of Zain Kuwait's Chief Enterprise...
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Iranian satellite fails to reach orbit after 'successful' launch
TEHRAN: An image grab shows the launch of the new Raad-500 missile yesterday. - AFP TEHRAN: Iran "successfully" launched a satellite into space yesterday but it fell short of reaching orbit, a defense ministry spokesman said on state television. Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi admitted in a tweet that the launch "failed", adding: "But We're UNSTOPPABLE! We have more Upcoming Great Iranian Satellites!"The satellite had...
The outgoing chair of the African Union and the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (L), hands over the chairmanship to the incoming chair for the African Union and south African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, at the 33rd Ordinary session of the assembly of the African heads of States at the African Unioun headquarters in Addis Ababa on February 9, 2020. (Photo by MICHAEL TEWELDE / AFP)
Africa leaders reject Trump peace plan at 'silence the guns' summit
ADDIS ABABA: Outgoing chair of the African Union and the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (left) hands over the chairmanship to the incoming chair of the African Union and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the 33rd ordinary session of the assembly of the African heads of states at the African Union headquarters yesterday. - AFP ADDIS ABABA: African leaders yesterday condemned US President Donald Trump's Mideast peace plan as...
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What did we prepare for coronavirus?
By Fatima Nasser Al-AzmiKUWAIT: The categorization of crises around the world differs according to their nature or type, and there is no doubt that the world is currently facing a health crisis with the spread of the new 2019/2020 Wuhan coronavirus, which started in the middle of Dec 2019 in this city located in the middle of China, and it was given the name CoV2019.The patient suffers from severe pulmonary infection that may lead to death,...
Dr Khalid Ahmad Al-Saleh
Multi-headed tsunami
Dr Khalid Ahmad Al-Saleh By Dr Khalid Ahmad Al-SalehA tsunami hit the Arab atmosphere as a result of a proposal by the United States of America, and this tsunami is growing larger against the proposal named the "Deal of the Century". The angry wave against the proposal was like a tsunami that sweeps away all that is in its path without discrimination, and it was also rejected by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League. This...
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Kuwait Capital Markets Authority lists first 'Reit Fund' on bourse
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Capital Markets Authority (CMA) approved a request to list 'KFH Capital Reit Fund' on Kuwait bourse, as the first real estate yield-generating fund. The authority said in statement that this approval brings a new investment product that allows investment in real estate assets and generates a periodic income on the fund's assets to benefit from the income of these properties by up to 90 percent of operating income. The approval...
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Philippine mission mandate is to protect interest, welfare of fellow citizens: Embassy source
By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: The Philippine Embassy responded to a news article published last week warning it against 'sheltering' runaway workers inside the embassy building, reminding the Philippines that sheltering absconding workers is against Kuwaiti law. "This was a mere proposal subject to further studies," said an embassy official who agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity since the newly-designated ambassador to Kuwait...
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones