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Another 55 candidates Join the electoral race

KUWAIT: Some 55 candidates joined the electoral race on the ninth day of registration yesterday, a month away from parliamentary elections slated for November 26th. The First Constituency yielded the following nine hopefuls: Iman Hayat, Jassim Al-Zayid, Khaled Al-Shuaaib, Abdulhamid Dashti, Abdullah Ibrahim, Adnan Zahid, Ali Shmo, Mubarak Al-Harees and Mohammad Al-Hadiya. Moreover, the Second Constituency produced candidates, who were: Jamaan...

Blackmailing journalist arrested

Blackmailing Egyptian journalist arrested

Blackmailing journalist arrestedKUWAIT: Residency detectives arrested an Egyptian man who claimed to be a journalist for an online news website. He was arrested for allegedly blackmailing and bribing employees of government and private entities and found to be in possession of several identification cards for different journalists. The department of Relations and Security Information said the suspect writes for an electronic news website. He...

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Thieves and absconders arrested

Items confiscatedKUWAIT: General Security Department continued its companies and arrested several wanted people in all governorates, under the direct supervision of Assistant Undersecretary for General Security Major General Ibrahim Al-Tarrah. Three male and two female citizens and a Filipina were arrested for previous charges.In another development, two Egyptians were arrested with drugs and paraphernalia, three male citizens, a female citizen,...

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'Smuggling attempt foiled, rape thwarted'

KUWAIT: An Asian expatriate was arrested attempting to smuggle 2.5 kg of heroin into Kuwait. Airport customs officers discovered the drugs inside the lining of the man's suitcase. He was sent to Drugs Control General Department. In another smuggling attempt, airport customs officers caught a citizen trying to bring in 10 bottles of alcohol. The woman, arriving from an Asian country, was caught when officers noticed during an X-ray of her luggage...

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Man cheated over flat he rented via photos

KUWAIT: A Lebanese man paid for the rental of an apartment that he had only seen via photos. A Lebanese man working in Kuwait saw an ad about an apartment in Salwa so he called the owner and asked to see it. The owner then convinced the Lebanese to meet him in Hawally and showed him several pictures of the flat. The man agreed to rent it and paid the rent in full. The Lebanese man then moved his furniture to the address he was given but upon...

Kuwait seeks to list local landmarks in World Heritage

.PARIS: Kuwait is diligently seeking to enlist some of its landmarks, namely Kuwait Towers, Failaka Island and Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Palace, in the World Heritage. They have already been included in the preliminary list of the World Heritage Committee, said supervisor of historic buildings at Kuwait National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) Abdullah Al-Bichi, in a statement.Al-Bichi, speaking after the second meeting of the...

Kuwait Towers

Abraj Al-Kuwait

Kuwait TowersAbraj Al-Kuwait will be nominated as a single monument. It is to be noted that this building is considered to be part of a nation-wide network of infrastructural water supply and reservoirs which consist of 31 more water towers (known as the mushroom towers) that are strategically distributed in groups around the country, and are connected to the distribution grid of the two already built distillation seawater plants.This ambitious...

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Muna Al Fuzai Despite the significant role played by expatriate workers in developing Kuwait's economy, it is saddening that some problems have emerged for these workers on more than one level, making the crisis sometimes intractable. The Kuwaiti society is facing two issues to resolve - the imbalance in the ratio of citizens to noncitizens and the excessive number of foreign workers, including domestic helpers. The former issue is...

Real estate slump lowers rents

.According to an economic expert, rents in Kuwait are falling, and the decline will continue until early 2018. Dr Hajjaj Bu Khudoor, also a former Kuwait University professor, told Kuwait Times there are three major factors why residential and investment rentals are down."Of course, it is still related to the global financial crisis of 2008, and now after eight years, Kuwait is getting rid of bad assets," he said. Another major factor according...

A conversation with "divorce"

.The alarming rise in the number of divorces in Kuwait and the Gulf countries is a social phenomenon that is novel to our society. In our past, all the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula had various customs and traditions in the way in which couples dealt with marriage. Since the advent of Islam, these customs have uniformed to a certain extent in the way in which marriage problems were treated. Little did families reach out to a divorce settlement...

Open spaces turn into construction sites for Kuwait’s ’16 elections

Open spaces turn into construction sites for Kuwait's '16 elections

Open spaces turn into construction sites for Kuwait’s ’16 electionsKUWAIT: With the launch of the electoral campaign for 2016 parliament hopefuls, many open spaces throughout Kuwait's governorates have been transformed into temporary construction sites as workers race with time to set up campaign tents and campaign headquarters as soon as possible and welcome potential voters.Workers filled these spaces, laying down floors and hammering out...

Nejoud Al Yagout - — Photo by Djinane Alsuwayeh

Nejoud Al YagoutDear Parliament Member,In this letter, I have a few pleas. I address this to you because you have the power to make decisions for us. May the words resonate in your soul.1. I ask that when you walk into that magnificent work of architecture we call the Parliament, you forget you are Kuwaiti. This might seem counter-intuitive, but when we look at the state of the world, we may as well do everything in the opposite way that we were...

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KUWAIT: Kuwaitis walk inside the Avenues Mall, the country’s largest shopping centre. The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) issued the latest detailed statistics on population and employment at the end of June 2024. The data shows that total population in Kuwait reached 4.919 million people. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

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