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Kuwait inches closer to expat only hospitals
KUWAIT: Kuwait's plan to achieve complete nationality-based segregation at its medical facilities is on track, with the first steps set to take place early next year when clinics run by a medical insurance company will begin offering services exclusively for expatriates.In addition to the 15 clinics that will be spread across Kuwait, the Health Insurance Hospitals Company, a public shareholding firm for health insurance established in accordance...
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Teachers to receive reduced rent allowances in Nov - Allowance cut from KD 150 to KD 60
KUWAIT: Arab public school teachers will receive their salaries in full this month, including their rent allowance intact, as the Ministry of Education is yet to officially receive the decision to cut the allowance from KD 150 to KD 60, despite the fact it became effective on October 13, 016.As a result, not only will teachers receive reduced rent allowances next month, but the ministry will also deduct KD 55 from each teacher’s pay for...
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Special panel examines candidates' papers
Sheikh Mohammad Al-KhaledKUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah ordered yesterday forming a special panel to examine nomination papers of the candidates vying for seats in the upcoming 50-member National Assembly (Parliament). The commission, to be presided by the first public attorney, justice Sultan Majed Boujarwa, will check the candidacy papers to ensure all the required terms and...
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Petroleum college overcrowded
KUWAIT: Dean of the College of Petroleum and Engineering at Kuwait University Prof Abdullatif Al-Khlaifi said that the college’s labs need periodic maintenance according to a special contract and that the delay in the college’s budget has been holding up maintenance operations, although studies are highly dependent on lab apparatuses.Khlaifi added that the total number of students at the college is 5,000, which is beyond its capacity of...
KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah is pictured with Kuwaiti athletes who participated in the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics. —KUN
Kuwait sports to be improved drastically: Sheikh Salman
KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah is pictured with Kuwaiti athletes who participated in the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics. —KUNKUWAIT: Sports in Kuwait will be drastically improved regionally and internationally in the foreseeable future, Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah said yesterday. Sheikh...
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Opposition 'on verge' of ending boycott: sources
KUWAIT: Opposition representatives met at Ammar Al-Ajmi's diwaniya in Kaifan without the attendance of former MPs Ahmed Al-Saadoun and Khaled Al-Sultan, well-informed sources said. The sources explained that 11 former MPs including Mohammad Al-Dallal, Badr Al-Dahoum, Jamaan Al-Harbash, Waleed Al-Tabtabaei, Hamad Al-Mutar, Osama Al-Menawer, Adel Al-Damkhi, Osama Al-Shaheen, Mohammad Hayef, Nayef Al-Merdas and Ajmi attended the meeting and...
KUWAIT: Kuwaitis wait in front of the election affairs department yesterday asıKuwaiti candidates arrive to register for the upcoming parliamentary elections. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
71 candidates register on first day
KUWAIT: Kuwaitis wait in front of the election affairs department yesterday asıKuwaiti candidates arrive to register for the upcoming parliamentary elections. —Photos by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: A total of 71 candidates registered to run for parliamentary elections yesterday. The third constituency saw the largest number of candidates in the first day of registration with 18, followed by the fifth with 16, the fourth with 15, and then the...
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Trio sold phone lines to inmates
KUWAIT: Acting Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Criminal Evidence Major General Shihab Al-Shimmari ordered two women and a man be sent to the public prosecution after they registered phones in the names of citizens and expats, then sold them to central prison inmates, leaving innocent people to bear the charges. A security source said a citizen told Khaitan police that she was surprised to find there were two phone lines in her...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani tea seller Arshad Khan is seen in this image posted on Instagram by Javeria Ali.
'Cat-eyed' tea seller sparks soul searching
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani tea seller Arshad Khan is seen in this image posted on Instagram by Javeria Ali.ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani tea seller with velvet eyes saw his life changed this week when his portrait spread around the Internet, sparking ardent debates on class, objectification, and the place of ethnic Pashtuns in society. Arshad Khan had no idea he had set the Internet alight from Pakistan to India and beyond: He has no phone, and cannot read....
SHARJAH: Pakistani activist for female education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech during a conference yesterday. - AFP
Malala urges Muslims to unite for peace
SHARJAH: Pakistani activist for female education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech during a conference yesterday. - AFPSHARJAH: Pakistan's Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, giving a speech yesterday in the Emirates, urged Muslims to respect the "true message of Islam" and unite against wars in their countries. The 19-year-old, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 after she had publicly...
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hand with Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi before a meeting. — AFP
India offers Myanmar’s Suu Kyi help in energy and agriculture
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hand with Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi before a meeting. — AFPNEW DELHI: Myanmar is struggling to establish full democracy after 50 years of military rule, de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday following a deadly military lockdown in restive Rakhine state. State media say security forces have killed at least 29 people in a military crackdown after raids on guard...
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Pakistan arrests two for spreading IS propaganda
PESHAWAR: Police arrested two men suspected of distributing pamphlets for Islamic State (IS) following a raid in the northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said yesterday, amid lingering fears that the Middle East militant group was making inroads in Pakistan. Last month, the military said that it had stemmed Islamic State's attempts to expand in the country, having arrested more than 300 people suspected of plotting attacks against government,...
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