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Ali Al-Obaidi

Govt to launch separate hospitals for expatriates - Limit on residency period mulled to curb expat numbers

Ali Al-ObaidiKUWAIT: Health Minister Ali Al-Obaidi said yesterday that the government's legal agency - the fatwa and legislative department - has given its approval for setting up an independent healthcare system for expatriates under a new medical insurance scheme. The fatwa department approved a draft contract the ministry plans to sign with the Health Insurance Hospitals Company to offer healthcare services to expatriates, the minister...

KUWAIT: Packets of Captagon pills and a suspect are seen after the shipment of the drug was busted yesterday. (Inset) Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah examines a packet of pills hidden inside an air compressor. — MoI

MoI seizes 3 million Captagon pills

KUWAIT: Packets of Captagon pills and a suspect are seen after the shipment of the drug was busted yesterday. (Inset) Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah examines a packet of pills hidden inside an air compressor. — MoIKUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior announced yesterday the confiscation of about three million pills of the illegal Captagon drug hidden inside air compressors. The Drugs Control General Department (DCGD) received...

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Patients won’t return before treatment ends

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Mubarak Al-Sabah reassured that the government will not allow the return of any patient sent for treatment abroad before his or her treatment is finished, Acting Parliament Speaker Mubarak Al-Khurainej said.“The Kuwaiti government will not abandoned its people who were sent for treatment” according to the state-sponsored treatment overseas program, Khurainej added. He further indicated...

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125,000 Kuwaitis live in Financial distress

KUWAIT: Around 125,000 Kuwaitis are living or are prone to live in financial distress that makes them relatively unable to bear extra burdens resulting from reducing subsidies, increasing fees or hiking prices, according to a recent study.The study, carried out by economist Mohammad Ramadan who says that it was based on Public Authority for Civil Aviation statistics, indicates that those citizens include married men with low academic...

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Interior Ministry stresses human rights’ protection

KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al-Fahd said the security establishment is keen on implementing laws and legislations that call for respecting human rights and not degrade human dignity, while guaranteeing protection to all those who live in Kuwait regardless of gender, religion or belief. Fahd was speaking during the reception of UN commissioner on fighting human trafficking Maria Garcia. Fahd stressed the rights of...

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

Cabinet deplores suicide attacks

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the cabinet’s meeting yesterday. — KUNAKUWAIT: The Cabinet discussed current regional and international developments during its weekly session yesterday, as it deplored a spate of suicide attacks in a number of nations, including Iraq, Yemen and Somalia. These attacks claimed numerous lives and injured scores of others as the Cabinet asserted its...

Mohammad Boshehri

Authority 'not responsible' for sheep prices' increase - Public houses exempted from energy fees’ hike

KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) is not responsible for the increase in sheep prices in local markets, deputy director for livestock resources Yousif Al-Najem stressed. He also highlighted that it was the responsibility of the ministry of commerce and industry and the municipality to control prices. "Many people are blaming PAAAFR for price increases before Eid Al-Adha, which is not true, because we...

India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Gen V K Singh

Indian minister arrives today

India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Gen V K SinghKUWAIT: India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Gen V K Singh (Retd) will arrive in Kuwait today on a two-day visit. During the visit, the minister will meet with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and other top Kuwaiti dignitaries and...

KUWAIT: Members of a Pakistani businessmen delegation hold talks with Kuwaiti officials at headquarters of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry. — KUNA

Pakistani delegation discusses cooperation with KCCI

KUWAIT: Members of a Pakistani businessmen delegation hold talks with Kuwaiti officials at headquarters of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry. — KUNAKUWAIT: A visiting delegation of Pakistani businessmen held talks yesterday with Kuwaiti officials at headquarters of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) on boosting commercial exchanges between the two countries.Khaled Al-Khaled, member of the KCCI’s Board, affirmed...

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Letters to Muna

Muna Al Fuzai I am a regular reader of Kuwait Times. With regards to your article about end of the oil era on Sunday, we all know that the current drop in oil prices is one of the main crises around the world today, so this article is quite appreciable. This is a serious concern to all of us (even a little more than the authorities and public) who working in oilfields, because this may lead to our unemployment. As an oil producing country,...

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Two Bangladeshis and a Nepalese arrested for reselling subsidized food

Subsidized foodKUWAIT: Two men, Bangladeshi and Nepalese, were caught storing subsidized food material in Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh, where they change the packing and resell it.A security source said tips were received by Brig Saleh Matter Al-Enezi about a store for subsidized food, so the store was raided and the two were arrested.They had 42 large bags of sugar, 50 kg of milk, 678 milk cans, 480 bottles of oil, 32 bags (50 kg each) of rice, in...

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Ahmadi's reckless driver arrested; 2 Bangladeshis caught with 120 liquor bottles

KUWAIT: Policemen in Ahmadi put an end to the activity of a reckless driver known as "Masmouh". Video clips on social media showed a young man showing off in many areas of Ahmadi without regard to others' safety. Policemen sent patrols in the area and spotted "Masmouh", who had blocked the road to display his dangerous skills in front of his fans. He was surrounded and detained at the police station for further action.Liquor possessionA fight...

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