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Alghanim Industries Academy welcomes over 80 new joiners

KUWAIT: Alghanim Industries (Kutayba Alghanim Group), one of the largest privately-owned companies in the region, welcomed the second batch of young professionals to the Alghanim Industries Academy, a new program focused on recruiting fresh college graduates and kickstarting their careers.The second cohort includes over 80 young Kuwaiti graduates from a variety of academic backgrounds such as information technology, engineering, marketing,...

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Major headway in Kuwait Airport renovation work

KUWAIT: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday announced significant headway in execution of projects for renovating Kuwait International Airport. Some 88 percent of work for building a new observation tower and installing state-of-art navigation equipment has been done, said Saad Al-Otaibi, the DGCA Deputy Director General in an interview.Work is also progressing on re-constructing and restoring the eastern runway and...

KUWAIT: Undersecretary of Kuwaiti National Guard, Lieutenant General Hashem Al-Refai talks to National Guard officials.

National Guard affirms pledge to protect state facilities

KUWAIT: Undersecretary of Kuwaiti National Guard, Lieutenant General Hashem Al-Refai affirmed commitment to protecting and ensuring state facilities via meticulous execution of tasks assigned to guards in responsibility sites.This came in a statement following Al-Refai's tour with senior officials to examine workflow in the foreign ministry, information ministry, Saudi embassy, and Doha eastern and western stations. Al-Refai added that the...

KUWAIT: The seized cannabis which was hidden in plastic box.

Quarter kilo of cannabis seized by customs at T5

KUWAIT: A supervisor at Kuwait airport's T5 was notified that a customs inspector had suspicions about an Asian passenger who appeared nervous. On further inspection, he was found to be carrying a quarter kilo of cannabis he had hidden in a plastic box between his clothes, the public relations department of Kuwait Customs announced.The suspect was transferred to the concerned department along with the contraband. General Manager of Kuwait Customs...

KUWAIT: People at Mubarakiya souk in downtown Kuwait.

Kuwait suppliers renew calls to increase foodstuff prices

By Majd OthmanKUWAIT: President of Union of Consumer Cooperative Societies Baddah Al-Dosari held a meeting on Tuesday with companies and institutions that supply commodities, foodstuff and consumer and basic goods to discuss food security and present the obstacles they face in marketing and providing products in the market.Dosari told Kuwait Times that the suppliers demanded in the meeting that the union should take action to convince the...

KUWAIT: Japanese tourists during their visit to Kuwait

Distinctive Kuwaiti traditions wow Japanese tourists

By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Sports tourism is one of the fastest-growing sectors in tourism, where sports events of various kinds can attract a lot of tourists. Mayumi, a Japanese woman, was one of the tourists who came to Kuwait to attend the AFC Futsal Asian Cup 2022, which was held in Kuwait from Sept 27 to Oct 8, to cheer for her team."I arrived in Kuwait on October 4th to see the tournament and support our Japanese national team. I was glad to see...

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Kuwait Direct Aid performs 3,267 eye surgeries in October

KUWAIT: Kuwait Direct Aid carried out 3,267 eye surgeries during October in Kolda and Dakar in Senegal. It stated in a press release on Wednesday that the society personnel allocated medical facilities specialized in eyes treatment in Chad and various cities in Niger.They added that the medical facilities were located in African cities with highest rates of blind cases, adding that they were implementing programs to fight blindness in...

LISBON, Portugal: Web Summit's CEO and Founder Paddy Cosgrave gestures during an interview at the Europe's largest tech conference, the Web Summit, in Lisbon on November 2, 2022.— AFP

Tech summit hears Uber whistleblower testimony

LISBON: A lobbyist who leaked thousands of compromising documents on Uber detailed his efforts to bring change to one of the world's leading companies at an annual tech summit in Lisbon. Revelations in July from Mark MacGann, who led Uber's lobbying efforts in Europe between 2014 and 2016, led to widespread accusations that the ride-hailing app had broken the law-allegations the firm denied.Reports based on his leaks alleged the company had...

SEOUL: Handout photo taken shows South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol (C) speaking at a meeting of the National Security Council over North Korea's missile launch, at the presidential office in Seoul. - AFP

N Korea fires more than 20 missiles

SEOUL: North Korea fired more than 20 missiles Wednesday, including one that landed close to South Korea's waters in what President Yoon Suk-yeol said was "effectively a territorial invasion". It also fired an artillery barrage into a maritime "buffer zone" that experts said was part of an "aggressive and threatening" response by Pyongyang to large-scale joint air drills the United States and South Korea are conducting.One short-range ballistic...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Denmark's Prime Minister and head of the the Social Democratic Party Mette Frederiksen (C) arrives prior to a speech for the election night of the Social Democratic Party at Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen. - AFP

After slim victory, Danish PM to form broader government

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: A day after scoring a narrow election victory, Denmark's Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen tendered her resignation Wednesday to begin the process of forming a new, broader government. Accustomed to leading minority governments, the Social Democrats-the largest party in parliament with 50 of 179 seats-now want to govern across the traditional left-right divide.The prime minister presented her government's...

SHENZHEN, China: File photo taken on May 27, 2010 shows Chinese workers outside the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, southern China's Guangdong province. Chinese authorities locked down the area surrounding the world's largest iPhone factory on November 2, 2022, after workers fled to avoid a coronavirus outbreak. – AFP

China imposes COVID lockdown on 600,000 people around iPhone plant

BEIJING: Chinese authorities imposed lockdowns on 600,000 people in the area surrounding the world's largest iPhone factory on Wednesday, as workers complained of disorderly COVID controls at the facility. All people except COVID-prevention volunteers and essential workers "must not leave their residences except to receive COVID tests and emergency medical treatment", officials from central China's Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone said.The move...

People walk in the town square where Maria Salud Ramirez Caballero, known as Mama Coco, lived in Santa Fe de la Laguna, Michoacan state, Mexico.- AFP photos

'Real' Mama Coco honored on Mexico's Day of the Dead

Tourists making a pilgrimage to a modest Mexican home during Day of the Dead festivities leave with no doubt: Mama Coco, the character of the Oscar-winning animated movie, used to live there. "It looks a lot like her! When you look at the nose in the drawing and hers, the shape of the face and the hair, or the wheelchair, it's too much of a coincidence," said Spanish tourist Paula Colmenero, 52. The sweet old woman in "Coco," winner of the...

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