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KUWAIT: Acting Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Col Mohammad Yousuf Al-Sabah (right) looks on as a policeman writes on a traffic ticket during a recent crackdown.
Multiple arrests in state-wide campaigns
KUWAIT: Acting Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Col Mohammad Yousuf Al-Sabah (right) looks on as a policeman writes on a traffic ticket during a recent crackdown.KUWAIT: Acting Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Col Mohammad Yousuf Al-Sabah led a campaign in all Kuwait governorates Tuesday night, which resulted in the arrest of four people wanted on felony cases, three others on drugs cases, 58 absconders in addition to five illegal workers,...
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Interior Ministry allows Syrians to regularize dependents' visa status
KUWAIT: Kuwait is allowing Syrians in the country to issue dependency visas of their wives and children in a bid to help end their suffering. The decision is expected to help hundreds of families in which sponsors brought their wives and children to Kuwait on visit visas but faced a dilemma when they could not transfer their visas into dependent visas or send them back to their war-torn country. As per the new instructions, Syrian sponsors in...
The National Assembly
10 MPs demand debating law on naturalization soon
MP Roumi asks govt about audit bureau reportsKUWAIT: Ten lawmakers yesterday submitted a petition calling on the national assembly to debate and approve a law that sets out the number of people who can be naturalized this year. The draft law stipulating granting Kuwaiti citizenship to up to 4,000 people, a majority of them stateless people or Bedouns, was studied and approved by the national assembly interior and defense committee before the...
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Allowances for home-based businesses
KUWAIT: The Manpower and Government Restructuring Program (MGRP) issued between 300 and 400 licenses to small business owners who are looking to run their business from home using social media. Meanwhile, efforts are currently underway to pass regulations in order for the government to pay them national labor support allowances similar to their peers in the private sector, said small projects manager at MGRP Fares Al-Enezi. The official explained...
Attorney Fajer Ahmed
Tech startups in Kuwait
Attorney Fajer Ahmed As I am sitting in the audience of ArabNet, a conference focused on digital business and entrepreneurship in MENA, and listening to entrepreneurs pitching their ideas, I can't help but think about how much the market has changed in Kuwait because of new legislations and how it can continue to prosper with new legislations introduced. The tech startup industry in Kuwait is a booming industry, and although Kuwait is a small...
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We are sucking food, MPs
Parliament agenda includes a clause known as 'responding to letters'. As far as I know, it involves having MPs respond to letters they receive from citizens but I do not know if those letters were ones of appreciation or complaint. However, I will push my luck and try sending one of those letters hoping they would respond to it. I am a retired citizen and my pension is less than half of your declared salaries. This applies to most retirees on...
KUWAIT: (From left) Commercial Councilor Jeff Hamilton and Press Attache Heather Ward attend a press conference organized by the US Embassy in Kuwait to promote the Discover America event. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
US Embassy in Kuwait organizes 10-day Discover America event
Over 15,000 Kuwaiti students sent to US in 2016 KUWAIT: (From left) Commercial Councilor Jeff Hamilton and Press Attache Heather Ward attend a press conference organized by the US Embassy in Kuwait to promote the Discover America event. —Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The US Embassy in Kuwait has organized 10 days of activities to mark the fifth annual Discover America event. Commercial Councilor Jeff Hamilton and Press Attache Heather Ward...
KUWAIT: Sailors from the Republic of Korea’s Navy Cruise Training Task Group (CTTG) perform martial arts during a ceremony commemorating the 38th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Kuwait. The event was held at Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center on Tuesday. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
South Korean envoy glad for military ships visit to Kuwait
Korean cultural performance at Jaber Al-Ahmad Center KUWAIT: Sailors from the Republic of Korea’s Navy Cruise Training Task Group (CTTG) perform martial arts during a ceremony commemorating the 38th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Kuwait. The event was held at Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center on Tuesday. —Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: South Korea's Ambassador to Kuwait Yoo Yeonchul on Tuesday...
WASHINGTON: In this image from video, Fatimah Baeshen, the spokeswoman for the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Washington, speaks during an AP interview. - AP
A Saudi first: Spokeswoman at US embassy
WASHINGTON: In this image from video, Fatimah Baeshen, the spokeswoman for the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Washington, speaks during an AP interview. - APWASHINGTON: As Saudi Arabia feverishly portrays itself as ready to join the ranks of modern, tolerant societies, the kingdom has turned to a once-unlikely messenger - one of its daughters - to make its case to the West. On Fatimah Baeshen's first day as the Saudi Embassy in Washington's official...
DUBAI: Palestinian high school student Afaf Sharif raises a trophy next to Emir of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum at the Arab Reading Challenge. - AFP
Palestinian girl wins $150K Arab reading prize
DUBAI: Palestinian high school student Afaf Sharif raises a trophy next to Emir of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum at the Arab Reading Challenge. - AFPDUBAI: A Palestinian high school student yesterday won $150,000 in an Arabic-language reading competition organized by the Dubai government. Seventeen-year-old Afaf Raed Sharif, from Ramallah, beat 16 finalists from across the Arab world to land the top prize in the second annual Arab Reading...
BOGOR: Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Al-Thani meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the presidential palace yesterday. - AFP
Qatar emir open to dialogue to end Gulf crisis
BOGOR: Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Al-Thani meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the presidential palace yesterday. - AFPBOGOR, Indonesia: Qatar is "open to dialogue" in resolving a dispute that has seen the Gulf state isolated from its Arab neighbors, its emir said during a visit to Indonesia yesterday. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut diplomatic and trade ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing it of financing...
RAQQA: A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by US special forces, talks on the radio near Raqqa’s stadium as they clear the last positions on the frontline. —AFP
Qaeda set to gain as IS disintegrates
RAQQA: A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by US special forces, talks on the radio near Raqqa’s stadium as they clear the last positions on the frontline. —AFPBEIRUT: Over several nights in September, some 10,000 men, women and children fled areas under Islamic State control, hurrying through fields in northern Syria and risking fire from government troops to reach a province held by an Al-Qaeda-linked group. For an...
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This photograph taken in 1967 shows French actor Alain Delon accompanied by his wife Nathalie Delon. --AFP photos
Alain Delon: Women he loved and left
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Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)
Massive fuel shortage forces electricity cuts in Kuwait
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EL KFOUR: Lebanon: People inspect the damage to a building after a Zionist airstrike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district, on August 17, 2024, amid the ongoing cross-border clashes between Zionist troops and Hezbollah fighters. – AFP
Hezbollah reveals its military muscle
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KUWAIT: His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Dr Imad Mohamed Al-Ateeqi (center) is greeted by Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (second right) and other officials. — KUNA
Oil minister returns to Kuwait after treatment in Turkey
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JAHRA: Part of the Al-Shagaya Concentrated Solar Power Project is seen in this photo taken from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research website.
KAPP shortlists companies for Dabdeba, Shagaya