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Kuwait ranks 90th worldwide and 3rd in GCC on terrorist funding index
KUWAIT: Kuwait was ranked 90th worldwide and 3rd in GCC on the 2017 international money laundering and terrorist funding index. According to the report issued by The Basel Institute on Governance, Kuwait advanced from 83rd to 90th last year. Notably, the Basel AML Index measures the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing of countries based on publicly available sources. A total of 14 indicators that deal with AML/CFT regulations,...
DOHA: This file photo shows migrant laborers working on a construction site in Doha in Qatar.—AFP
Excess expat workers; Replacing expat
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs And Labor issued a ministerial decision mandating employers to pay a fee of KD 250 per work permit for excess expat workers, noting that employers will only be allowed a maximum of 50 percent of the workforce to be expats.Replacing expatThe Public Authority for Housing Welfare announced full adherence to CSC regulations pertaining replacing expat employees with citizens, since Minister Yasser Abul took...
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Syrian visas subject to security checks
KUWAIT: Responding to a parliamentary proposal suggesting allowing the issuance of family visit visas for Syrians residents, Deputy PM and Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah said opening of family visit visas for Syrians was being done according to standard procedures and subject to security checks.Experts from BostonHealth Minister Dr Jamal Al-Harbi said a number of experts from Boston Pediatrics Hospital will visit Kuwait by the end of...
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah with US President Donald Trump. — KUNA photos
Amir to meet Trump, discuss regional issues
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah with US President Donald Trump. — KUNA photosKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah began his official visit to the US capital, Washington DC yesterday, during which he will meet US President Donald Trump to discuss bilateral relations and issues of common concern. The visit of His Highness the Amir to the United States comes at a time when the two...
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Total sells stake in Norwegian oil field to Kuwait
PARIS: French oil giant Total said yesterday it has agreed to sell its remaining stake in a Norwegian oil field to Kuwait so that it can focus on its recent acquisition of Denmark's Maersk Oil. "Total has signed an agreement to divest its remaining 15-percent interest in the Gina Krog field in Norway to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC)," Total said in a statement. "In the framework of our portfolio management and optimization...
Attorney Fajer Ahmed
Employment issues
Attorney Fajer Ahmed I have written about this many times before but I will continue to say, we are blessed in Kuwait (and the GCC) to have such a diverse workforce. Some countries or some communities are homogenous; you will find that all the people in that community are from one race and one background, but fortunately in Kuwait we are a sea of humans, and it amazes me how much we can learn from each other. I am also personally blessed that...
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Children's rights
Muna Al Fuzai Childhood is the most important stage in a human's life. Article 9 of the Kuwaiti constitution affirms that "the family is the base of society in which motherhood and childhood are protected". In 1991, Kuwait ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and in 2015, Kuwait issued a children's rights law. Children's rights have been neglected for years, but today they are governed by child protection laws. Although the...
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Seeking scapegoats
As far as I know, no international court would hear cases filed by individuals against sovereign states except the European Human Rights Court, which jurisdiction is limited to the countries who had signed the particular court's treaty. If an expat, for example an Egyptian teacher, threatens to file a complaint with international human right organizations against Kuwait for violating expat teachers' rights, as he claims, that is his business. It...
KUWAIT: A traditional Onam feast is served on banana leaves in an apartment in Salmiya as a group of Malayali families gathered there to celebrate the festival.
Keralites celebrate Onam
KUWAIT: A traditional Onam feast is served on banana leaves in an apartment in Salmiya as a group of Malayali families gathered there to celebrate the festival.KUWAIT: The Keralaites in Kuwait yesterday celebrated Onam, Kerala's harvest festival, with traditional enthusiasm and gaiety. Fortunately, 'Thiruvonam,' the most important day during the 10-day-long festival, fell on the fourth day of Eid Al-Adha festival this year, making it convenient...
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Unlicensed TV channel
KUWAIT: High-ranking security sources said Kuwait has handed over Saudi national Sheikh Fayez bin Damkh, who was arrested over charges of launching an unlicensed TV channel from Kuwait under the name of Al-Jazeera Al-Arabiya. Bin Damkh was the channel's chairman, and its equipment was confiscated when the authorities raided a villa in West Abdullah Al-Mubarak.Oil leak in AbdalyKOC announced a limited leak took place from one of its pipes in...
(Clockwise from top left) A local resident chats slogans during a mass protest in Chechnya’s provincial capital Grozny; an activist of ultra-leftist organization enacts a scene of a tortured Rohingya in a street play to protest against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims near Myanmar Consulate in Kolkata; a Muslim woman shouts slogans as she holds up a poster bearing a defaced portrait of Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally against the persecution of Rohingya Muslim minority, outside the Myanmar’s Embassy in Jakarta; Mohammad Osama, 16, center right, and Amanullah, 28, center left, show their bullets wound outside Sadar hospital, in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh.— AP photos
87K refugees arrive in Bangladesh from Myanmar
Aid agencies struggling to cope with the massive influx (Clockwise from top left) A local resident chats slogans during a mass protest in Chechnya’s provincial capital Grozny; an activist of ultra-leftist organization enacts a scene of a tortured Rohingya in a street play to protest against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims near Myanmar Consulate in Kolkata; a Muslim woman shouts slogans as she holds up a poster bearing a defaced portrait of...
DEIR El-ZOUR: This photo released on Sunday, Sept 3, 2017 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen standing near military vehicles. — AP
Syria army nears regime enclave besieged by IS
DEIR El-ZOUR: This photo released on Sunday, Sept 3, 2017 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen standing near military vehicles. — APBEIRUT: Syria's army battled the Islamic State group on the edges of Deir Ezzor yesterday, seeking to break the siege of a government enclave and oust the jihadists from a key stronghold. The jihadist group has already lost more than half of its nearby bastion of...
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This undated imageshows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple) cultured in the laboratory. - AFP
Mpox global health emergency, Kuwait monitoring situation
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NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the guard of honor to mark the country's Independence Day, at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2024. -AFP
Modi renews push for common civil code for India
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Minouche Shafik
Columbia president resigns months after campus Gaza demos
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KUWAIT: People watch pearl diving boats as they arrive at the main beach at the end of the 33rd annual pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti Amir in order to keep traditions alive.
Pearl diving trip winds up
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