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MP Mubarak Al-Hajraf

MPs wants to take away expats' right to change employers

MP Mubarak Al-HajrafKUWAIT: MP Mubarak Al-Hajraf said that at a time when oil producing counties are reorganizing labor markets to create new job opportunities, encourage the youth to join the private sector and reduce dependence on expatriate labor, the government in Kuwait keeps recruiting foreign workers. "This indicates the government and the concerned minister's failure and lack of vision to nationalize jobs and substitute expats with...

Fog shuts ports, flights re-routed

.DUBAI: Kuwait shut all ports yesterday temporarily due to foggy weather, state news agency KUNA said, quoting the country’s port authority. Bad weather halted operations at Shuwaikh, Shuaiba and Doha ports, which were expected to resume activity once weather conditions and visibility improve, the statement said. Also, 14 incoming flights were re-routed, KUNA said, quoting the country’s civil aviation authority.Flights were re-routed to...

Essam Al-Marzouq

Kuwait expects big commitment to oil cut deal

Essam Al-MarzouqKUWAIT: Kuwaiti Oil Minister Essam Al-Marzouq yesterday described as encouraging oil production reductions announced so far. Kuwait heads a committee to monitor crude output cuts. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed in November to cut its production by 1.2 million barrels per day starting January to reduce a global supply glut that had kept prices painfully low.A group of 14 non-OPEC producers, led by the...

KUWAIT: Members of Kuwait Airways’ employees syndicate stage a sit-in outside KAC headquarters in Dajeej yesterday. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Kuwait Airways union stages sit-in to demand rights

Passport stamping adds to fishermen's woes: union KUWAIT: Members of Kuwait Airways’ employees syndicate stage a sit-in outside KAC headquarters in Dajeej yesterday. — Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Kuwait Airways' employees syndicate yesterday organized a sit-in outside KAC headquarters in Dajeej to demand the rights of pilots, engineers and other employees that it says have not been honored. MP Mohammed Al-Khodair took part in the...

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet’s meeting yesterday. —KUNA

Cabinet decides to incorporate philanthropy into school curricula

Panel to investigate Anti-Corruption Authority KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet’s meeting yesterday. —KUNAKUWAIT: At the behest of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Cabinet has decreed to introduce philanthropy and volunteerism to school curricula, given the merit of such virtues.In a statement issued after its weekly meeting yesterday, the...

Kuwait University students showcase designs for Jazeera Airways’ new terminal

Kuwait University students showcase designs for Jazeera Airways' new terminal

Kuwait University students showcase designs for Jazeera Airways’ new terminalKUWAIT: From locally inspired designs to avant-garde and ultra-modern designs, 30 students from Kuwait University's College of Architecture showcased 15 architectural designs for Jazeera Airways new terminal in an exhibit hosted by Jazeera Airways and attended by university faculty, senior executives from Kuwait's Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Jazeera...

Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah

Kuwait to help Iraq rebuild

Mosul: Deputy Foreign Minister Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-JarallahKUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah said Kuwait and Iraq have already discussed holding a special conference to rebuild Mosul after liberating it from IS, as well as the possibility that a donors' conference be hosted in Kuwait for this purpose. "Iraqis have been requested to prepare a vision of the conference," Jarallah added, noting that the Iraqi side...

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Conmen steal €85,000 in cash

KUWAIT: Criminal detectives are working on a case involving the theft of €85,000 in cash stolen from a money exchange shop in Farwaniya. It is feared the alleged two thieves may have left the country. Sources said two English-speaking men visited the money exchange shop and asked to buy €82,000 in cash. The two told the cashier they wanted to count the money and it was handed over. But when they finished, the ATM card they tried to pay with...

US ship fired warning shots at Iranian boats

Tehran to develop missiles .WASHINGTON: A US Navy destroyer fired three warning shots at four Iranian fast-attack vessels after they closed in at a high rate of speed near the Strait of Hormuz, two US defense officials told Reuters yesterday. The incident, which occurred Sunday, comes as US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office on Jan 20. In September, Trump vowed that any Iranian vessels that harass the US Navy in the Gulf would...

SHANGHAI: Humanoid robot Jia Jia is seen following a presentation at a conference yesterday. - AFP

Bionic woman: Chinese robot turns on charm

SHANGHAI: Humanoid robot Jia Jia is seen following a presentation at a conference yesterday. - AFPSHANGHAI: "Jia Jia" can hold a simple conversation and make specific facial expressions when asked, and her creator believes the eerily life-like robot heralds a future of cyborg labor in China. Billed as China's first human-like robot, Jia Jia was first trotted out last year by a team of engineers at the University of Science and Technology of...

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5 suicide bombers die, kill 3 in Nigeria attack

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Five suicide bombers trying to infiltrate Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri have died in explosions that killed at least three civilians, police said yesterday, blaming Boko Haram Islamic extremists. Sunday night’s blasts occurred more than 10 kilometers (6 miles) apart on the city’s eastern outskirts, deputy superintendent Victor Isuku said.Three men strapped into explosive vests and firing assault rifles...

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UAE orders removal of 'Persian Gulf' from book

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has ordered the removal from a textbook of the term "Persian Gulf" for the waterway that is the subject of a bitter naming dispute with Iran, a newspaper reported yesterday.The UAE education ministry stepped in after complaints that the book was using that name instead of "Arabian Gulf" that Arab countries use to describe the body of water, Emirat Al-Youm said.The ministry said the fourth grade textbook, which...

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KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior and Defense Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah holds talks with senior defense ministry officials on Aug 7, 2024. - KUNA

Kuwait army alert, govt prepared

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Ahmed Al-Basat celebrating his birthday at the office.

A forgotten courtesy: The silent struggle of Kuwait’s expatriates

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PARIS: Bangladesh's finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is escorted by French police personnel as he arrives at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Aug 7, 2024, enroute to Bangladesh, where he is set to lead a caretaker government. - AFP

Yunus: Get ready to build Bangladesh

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The second phase of the Avenues Roads Project, the exit leading to the Fifth Ring Road towards Jahra and the opposite U-turn. – KUNA photos

Second phase of roads project leading to The Avenues mall opened

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Video grab taken from a video footage shows rescuers helping a person out of a hotel that partly collapsed on August 7, 2024 in Kroev, western Germany, killing one person and burying eight others. - A floor in the hotel in Kroev, a town some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed for unknown reasons, police said in a statement. Of the 14 people inside at the time, five managed to get out. — AFP

One dead, several buried in German hotel collapse