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ITS Group appoints Essam Al-Khashnam as CEO

Essam Al-KhashnamKUWAIT: International Turnkey Systems Group (ITS), affiliated to Kuwait Finance House (KFH) announced the appointment of Kuwaiti national, Essam Al-Khashnam as Chief Executive Officer. This comes in line with the company's efforts to improve its businesses and services in the Middle East and the world, not to mention to achieve further milestones in providing high end integrated IT solutions and software services for several...

KUWAIT: Daniel Khayat, MEA HTC Product Manager, speaks during the interview

HTC to unveil new smartphones in Kuwait

HTC U Ultra and HTC U Play challenge everything that people expect from smartphones KUWAIT: Daniel Khayat, MEA HTC Product Manager, speaks during the interviewKUWAIT: HTC, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, unveiled its new smartphone series, HTC U with two new models, the HTC U Ultra, which is a flagship phone and HTC U Play. Incomparably beautiful to look at and hold with the technology and software to match, the HTC U series...

KUWAIT: Entrepreneurs make remarks on their small businesses in the mall.

CREC opens The Lobby project at Symphony Style Mall

Project to support small Kuwaiti businesses: Al-Aryan KUWAIT: Entrepreneurs make remarks on their small businesses in the mall.KUWAIT: The Commercial Real Estate Company and on behalf of its Chairman Abdulfattah M R Marafie officially opened its unique Lobby project to support small business youth on Monday in the presence of the company's representatives, business owners and tenants of The Lobby at Symphony Style Mall. With media coverage and...

Mijbel AlQattan, CFA,nPresident of CFA Society Kuwait

Regional stocks to be highest performing asset class in 2017

Annual Middle East Societies Market Sentiment Survey 2017 by CFA Mijbel AlQattan, CFA,President of CFA Society KuwaitKUWAIT: CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, revealed the results of its annual Middle East Societies Market Sentiment Survey at a press conference ahead of its Middle East Investment Conference (MEIC), to be held in Abu Dhabi on February 23, 2017. The survey presented responses from CFA...

LAGOS: In this photo taken on Monday Feb 20, 2017, vegetable vendors ply their wares by the light of locally-made lanterns. —AP

Nigerians starved of power turn their sights to solar

LAGOS: In this photo taken on Monday Feb 20, 2017, vegetable vendors ply their wares by the light of locally-made lanterns. —APJOHANNESBURG: The surprise was finding that people dependent on candles, batteries, kerosene and fuel for generators in countries without a secure supply of electricity spend more on power than solar options. The founders of Dutch company Lumos knew they could do better. In Nigeria, for the cost of powering a small...

New miniature frog species

New miniature frog species found in India

New miniature frog speciesNEW DELHI: Scientists have discovered four new species of miniature night frogs small enough to sit on a fingernail in a remote part of India, according to a report published yesterday. The researchers, who spent five years exploring the lush Western Ghats mountains, said the tiny amphibians were there in abundance but had likely been overlooked because of their size. They also found three other species of night frogs,...

A teacher (center) at the PEFTI Film Institute teaches students to use a video camera at the school in Lagos. — AFP photos

A boost for Nollywood with 'The Wedding Party' success

'Our weddings are very colorful, a lot of dancing, a lot of drama, that's who we are' A teacher (center) at the PEFTI Film Institute teaches students to use a video camera at the school in Lagos. — AFP photosNollywood film "The Wedding Party" has shown Nigerian cinema at the top of its game, with its success at the box office taking it to new audiences across Africa and the world. The country may well be in recession but Nollywood, which churns...

Valentina Sampaio

Brazil transgender model Sampaio 'fighting for better world'

Brazilian transgender model Valentina Sampaio poses during an interview in Milan.Valentina Sampaio, the first transgender model to make the cover of French "Vogue", will be flying the flag for the LGBT movement at Milan fashion week. The 22-year-old Brazilian, who appeared on the cover of Elle Brazil in November and has modeled for labels such as Gisela Franck and Rchlo, is in the city to attend casting sessions in the hope of snapping up a...

Oud virtuso Nasser Shamma

UNESCO appoints Iraqi composer 'Musician for Peace'

Oud virtuso Nasser ShammaUN Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced Monday it is appointing Iraqi composer and Oud virtuso Nasser Shamma as its "Artist for Peace" in recognition of his life's work in favor of peace, a statement from that body said. The UN organization's Director-General, Irina Bokova, will formally honor Shamma on February 23 and appoint him to the elevated status "in recognition of his commitment to...

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Lawmaker proposes granting citizenship to non-Muslims

Panel to probe jail attack - MP demands investment reformsKUWAIT: MP Khaled Al-Shatti yesterday submitted a draft law calling to scrap a provision in the 1959 nationality law that prohibits granting Kuwaiti citizenship to non-Muslims. The lawmaker said that scrapping the provision will end what he called decades of discrimination against non-Muslims in the country's nationality law.The proposed amendment must first be cleared by the National...

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KIA chief Saad 'to step down'

KUWAIT: According to a Bloomberg report yesterday, Kuwait Investment Authority is set to name Farouk Bastaki as managing director, replacing Bader Al-Saad who ran the world's fifth-largest sovereign wealth fund for 14 years, a person familiar with the matter said. KIA is finalizing the appointment, said the person, asking not to be identified because the information is private. Al-Rai daily also reported the appointment earlier yesterday, saying...

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