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The South Jahra Labor City
Affordable housing for 20,000 male bachelor expats
Authority for Partnership Projects invites for South Jahra Labor City The South Jahra Labor CityKUWAIT: Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) in collaboration with Kuwait Municipality has invited local and international companies/consortia and the companies listed in the Kuwait Stock Exchange to submit Statements of Qualification (SOQ) for 'South Jahra Labor City' in accordance to Law No. 116 of 2014 Regarding Public Private...
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Municipality requests hiring more non-Kuwaiti employees
KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality recently extended the tenures of 248 non-Kuwaiti employees working for monthly payments on interim basis for a further year effective from April. The municipality also requested appointing six others in various jobs, but the decision was deferred. Notably, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) had set four conditions for hiring bedoons - holding Central Apparatus for Illegal residents cards, being already listed with CSC,...
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Donations for release of convicts nearly $4 million
KUWAIT: Zakat House has raised KD 1.205 million (some $3.950) through a campaign it launched on Saturday night for the release of Kuwaiti prisoners convicted on financial charges. The campaign entitled 'let them spend Ramadan with us' was launched at Kuwait TV in the presence of Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of Information Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Minister of Justice and Minister of State for...
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Two-day weekend for nurses considered
KUWAIT: Health Minister Dr Jamal Al-Harbi stressed that the Ministry of Health (MoH) shows great care for the nursing sector and that it is currently considering nurses' demands to get two weekly days off. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony held by Kuwait Nursing Association (KNA) to celebrate World Nursing Day, Harbi said that the two days off is currently applied with Kuwaiti nurses and that studies are in progress to include...
Attorney Fajer Ahmed
Doing business in Kuwait as a non-national
Attorney Fajer Ahmed We are lucky in Kuwait to have such a diverse and talented community, and we are blessed to be able to learn from different cultures and societies. Like I have mentioned in my previous articles, Kuwait is changing to the positive when it comes to establishing a business in Kuwait, thanks to new commercial and corporate laws and regulations, the Kuwait Business Center, Kuwait Direct Investment Public Authority (KDIPA) and...
KUWAIT: US Ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence Silverman speaks during a travel and tourism event held yesterday at the Sheraton Hotel. — Photos by Joseph Shagra
87,000 Kuwaitis travelled to US in 2016: Ambassador
KUWAIT: US Ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence Silverman speaks during a travel and tourism event held yesterday at the Sheraton Hotel. — Photos by Joseph ShagraKUWAIT: More than 87,000 Kuwaitis travelled to the United States for tourism or education last year, US Ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence Silverman revealed as he opened a travel and tourism event yesterday at the Sheraton Hotel. The event was sponsored by Qatar Airways and attended by travel...
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Maid with terminal cancer helped to travel back home; Maid received unpaid salaries
KUWAIT: Efforts by the domestic help department in cooperation with Director General of the Residency Affairs Department Maj Gen Talal Maarafi succeeded in facilitating the travel of a Madagascan woman suffering from terminal cancer that had reached its final stages. A security source said the domestic help department contacted the Madagascar Embassy in Riyadh to obtain a travel document to enable the woman to leave, and also dropped all fines...
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Melania and Brigitte
Despite all the modernism and evolution, humanity limits viewing women as mere bodies and for fulfilling man's needs. Despite all the science and huge technologies we have in the 21st century, women are still the same in men's eyes. All speeches about liberation, equality laws, conferences on women rights, the recommendations and slogans they promote and all the shouting seem to have failed in changing men's views. This is happening everywhere...
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Search for thief and an Asian for public indecency
KUWAIT: Detectives are looking for a person who entered a residence of Asians in Khaitan and stole KD 300 from one of them. A neighbor was able to jot down the license plate number of the suspect’s car and gave it to the police. An Indian man went to Khaitan police station and told them a man in a dishdasha entered their residence claiming to be a detective, handcuffed him, took the money and escaped.Public indecencyAhmadi detectives are...
The Palace of Justice, kuwait court
Duo sentenced to death in royal's Salwa murder
KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday sentenced two Iranians to death for murdering their sponsor, said security sources, noting that the two suspects had worked as cooks for the ruling family member they killed. The court also fined two citizens for selling the suspects an unlicensed firearm. The crime happened in November 2016 when the suspects shot dead their Kuwaiti sponsor, along with another Kuwaiti man and an Indonesian woman inside a Salwa...
BEIRUT: In this May 4, 2017 photo, a boy walks by graffiti of Palestinian flags that reads: “The flag is four colors that shine on the face of the sun” in the Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp. — AP
For Palestinians in Lebanon, 69 years of despair
BEIRUT: In this May 4, 2017 photo, a boy walks by graffiti of Palestinian flags that reads: “The flag is four colors that shine on the face of the sun” in the Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp. — APSIDON, Lebanon: Ahmad Dawoud recalls the day 10 years ago when a Lebanese soldier asked to search his taxi. Then 17, the Palestinian didn't wait for the soldier to find the weapons hidden in the trunk. He jumped from the car and fled...
PARIS: Newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron parades in a military car on the Champs Elysees avenue after his formal inauguration ceremony yesterday. - AFP
Macron takes power as French president - Amir sends congratulations
PARIS: Newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron parades in a military car on the Champs Elysees avenue after his formal inauguration ceremony yesterday. - AFPPARIS: Emmanuel Macron became France's youngest ever president yesterday, promising at his inauguration to restore the country's lost confidence and relaunch the flagging European Union. Macron, a 39-year-old centrist, took the reins of power from Socialist Francois Hollande at the...
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Sheikh Salem Al-Ali passes away
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GAZA: People inspect the damage in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood following Zionist bombardment on August 11, 2024. — AFP
US orders nuclear submarine to Mideast
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His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
Kuwait mourns Al-Sabah Family patriarch, KNG Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah
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KURSK: This handout photograph taken and released by the Government of Kursk region of Russia on August 9, 2024, shows women and children being evacuated from the town of Rylsk in Kursk region. — AFP
Putin orders Russian army to ‘dislodge’ Ukrainian forces
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HERAT, Afghanistan: Afghan female workers sort and process dry Saffron at a facility in Herat. – AFP
Three years after return of Taleban, Afghan economic woes loom large