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Kuwait's new opera house catches fire
Firefighters tackle a blaze at the Sheikh Jaber Cultural CenterKUWAIT: Flames ripped through Kuwait's new opera house today, just three months after the futuristic $770-million venue opened to the public. A thick plume of black smoke rose from the waterfront Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center, television footage showed. Firefighters on a crane sprayed water onto the building, a structure covered with geometric Islamic patterns. No injuries...
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Assembly to hold debate on Khor Abdullah issue
Ghanem: Some grillings politically motivatedKUWAIT: Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem yesterday said that he will invite the government to brief the National Assembly in a closed debate on Feb 14 on the shared Khor Abdullah waterway with Iraq. The issue of the narrow estuary has become an issue in Iraq, leading to demonstrations in the southern city of Basra, with a number of Iraqi parliamentarians accusing Kuwait of taking part of Iraqi territorial...
LIBREVILLE: Cameroon players celebrate with the trophy after beating Egypt 2-1 to win the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations final football match at the Stade de l’AmitienSino-Gabonaise yesterday. —AFP
'Indomitable Lions' crowned Africa kings
Cameroon win Africa Cup of Nations LIBREVILLE: Cameroon players celebrate with the trophy after beating Egypt 2-1 to win the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations final football match at the Stade de l’AmitieSino-Gabonaise yesterday. —AFPLIBREVILLE:  Vincent Aboubakar came off the bench to score a stunning winner with two minutes left as Cameroon fought back from behind to beat Egypt 2-1 in a thrilling Africa Cup of Nations final yesterday.  Arsenal...
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Firm to inspect Kuwait's tax evasion prevention measures
KUWAIT: A delegation from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is scheduled to visit Kuwait in May to review its readiness for applying the agreement of Common Reporting Standard (CRS), which aims at fighting tax evasion. Informed sources said the visit aims at urging the procedures needed to implement the agreement Kuwait signed last year to be retroactive since 2017 and effective by 2018.Health insuranceHealth...
KUWAIT: Ahmad Al-Manfouri, Director General of Kuwait Municipality (left) presents a memento to Takashi Ashiki, the Japanese Ambassador to Kuwait. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Kuwait-Japan cooperate on waste management
'Workshop of Municipal Solid Waste' KUWAIT: Ahmad Al-Manfouri, Director General of Kuwait Municipality (left) presents a memento to Takashi Ashiki, the Japanese Ambassador to Kuwait. —Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: A two-day conference on the environment kicked off yesterday at Costa del Sol Hote, under the auspices of Kuwait's Environment Public Authority (EPA) in collaboration  with the Ministry of Environment in Japan. The event, titled...
Oil Minister EssamnAl-Marzouq
Oil sector to employ over 2,000 Kuwaitis in 2017-18
Oil Minister EssamAl-MarzouqKUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) is set to employ over 2,000 Kuwaitis for the fiscal year 2017-2018. With the new employment, the number of new Kuwaiti workers in the oil sector will reach 4000 for the current and the next fiscal years, Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water Essam Al-Marzouq said in an interview published yesterday in Al-Anbaa newspaper.Marzouq meanwhile noted that Kuwait’s...
Attorney Fajer Ahmed
How to hire a lawyer
Fortunately and unfortunately, the Kuwaiti market is saturated with lawyers - the good, the bad and the ugly, as well as everything in between. So when I decided to start my own law firm, my lawyer friends didn't think it was a good idea. "Surely Fajer, you can join one of us," was the repeated refrain by them with care and love, but I didn't want to. I had a different vision then - I wanted my firm to be approachable (and affordable) by anyone...
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Working in the cold
Muna Al Fuzai Kuwait is experiencing a cold wave these days. The weather is freezing, with the wind bringing temperatures down, especially in the early hours of the morning. But every morning, we see workers heading to work in the extreme cold wearing dirty yellow uniforms or old and light clothes. Their choice is limited, so they tend to shield themselves from the wind by crouching on the sides of buildings. The owners of their companies...
KUWAIT: Drugs found with two suspects arrested yesterday in Fintas.
Fugitives arrested in Fintas, Mahboula
KUWAIT: Drugs found with two suspects arrested yesterday in Fintas.KUWAIT: Two citizens were arrested in Fintas with drugs, said security sources, after checking on the suspects, one of them was also discovered to be wanted by authorities over five different cases, while the other was found to be wanted for a financial claim to a local telecom company.Meanwhile, another citizen was arrested in Mahboula and discovered to be wanted in four...
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Interior follows up Iraqi demonstrations
KUWAIT: Well-informed security sources said Ministry of Interior is following up with concern some demonstrations on the Iraqi side of Khor Abdullah, but noted that the matter was left to diplomats because it was an Iraqi domestic concern.Smuggling foiledAn Ethiopian woman was arrested on arrival at Kuwait International Airport with possession of eight kilograms of qat hidden in ground coffee in her luggage. Security sources said the suspect...
LOS ANGELES: Naimah Qazi (left) and Hatal Ashraph, both of Hawthorne, California, protest the executive order by US President Donald Trump banning immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday. - AFP
Visa holders rush to board flights amid reprieve
 Trump immigration ban in limbo LOS ANGELES: Naimah Qazi (left) and Hatal Ashraph, both of Hawthorne, California, protest the executive order by US President Donald Trump banning immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday. - AFPPALM BEACH: A US appeals court has rejected a government request to reinstate President Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban, prompting travelers from seven...
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Mosul residents outraged by IS hole fee
BAGHDAD: Cash-strapped jihadists punching holes in people's homes to move across west Mosul undetected are now asking victims to pay for the labor, several residents said yesterday. The fee is a modest 7,000 Iraqi dinars (around five US dollars) but adds insult to injury, said residents of Mosul's west bank, where the Islamic State group is digging in for a planned offensive by the Iraqi security forces. "Daesh is smashing holes in the walls of...
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GAZA: Palestinians surround bodies lying on the ground at the Al-Maamadani hospital after they were killed in a Zionist strike on a school used as a refuge by displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Aug 8, 2024. - AFP
Iran says Zionists seeking war
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DHAKA: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (center) takes the oath of office as the chief adviser of Bangladesh's new interim government, administered by President Mohammed Shahabuddin (left) on August 8, 2024. - AFP
Yunus sworn in as Bangladesh leader
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Abdullah Al-Sanousi
Digital nomads: New-age employees freely roaming around ever-changing job market
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KUWAIT: Workers take shelter from the sun under a tree in Kuwait City amidst a heatwave. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
‘Inadequate’ heat protection for Gulf migrant workers
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Minister of Information and Bahrain's Minister of Tourism sign an executive program of tourism cooperation agreement for 2024, 2025, and 2026. – KUNA photos
Kuwait and Bahrain ink executive program for tourism cooperation