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‘Best Investment Bank’ award shows NBK Capital’s dedication to excellence

‘Best Investment Bank’ award shows NBK Capital’s dedication to excellence

‘Best Investment Bank’ award shows NBK Capital’s dedication to excellenceKUWAIT: NBK Capital was named “The Best Investment Bank in Kuwait” during the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2016 that was held in Dubai on June 1. Euromoney highlighted that NBK Capital executed an impressive number of high profile transactions and worked with leading clients in Kuwait and across the region such as the STC’s tender offer for VIVA, the IPO of...

Saleh Yacoub Al-Homaizi, Chairman of Kuwait Finance and Investment Company

Homaizi: KFIC paid KD 4m in loan payments during 2015

Saleh Yacoub Al-Homaizi, Chairman of Kuwait Finance and Investment CompanyKUWAIT: Plans to divest some unprofitable investments and the diversification of the investment portfolio to decrease risks continue to be implemented. Saleh Yacoub Al-Homaizi, Chairman of Kuwait Finance and Investment Company (KFIC) revealed that KFIC continued during 2015 to decrease the total receivables by 14 percent to approximately KD 20.8 million. This figure...

Khaled Saoud Al-Hassan, GIG CEO

Gulf Insurance Group to acquire Turkish insurer

Khaled Saoud Al-Hassan, GIG CEOKUWAIT: Gulf Insurance Group K S C P, the leading insurance service provider in the Middle East and North Africa region, announced today that it has successfully obtained the approval from Turkish regulators to acquire 90 percent stake of Turins Sigorta, a Turkish non-life insurer.Established in 2013, the Turkish non-life insurer Turins Sigorta offers insurance solutions to both corporates and individuals covering...

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Dasman Diabetes Institute: Kuwait’s staunch bulwark against diabetes

KUWAIT: The prevalence of diabetes in Kuwait is amongst the highest in the world, and the country's government and non-government organizations have been confronting the non-communicable disease and its risk factors at all fronts.On the frontline of this war, stands the Dasman Diabetes Institute as a main defender of Kuwaitis' health against the disease which represents an enormous challenge to Kuwait's health system.The DDI encompasses a...

Indian Bollywood actors Shahid Kapoor (left ) and Alia Bhatt (second left) and directors Madhu Mantena Varma (second right) and Mahesh Bhatt talk during a press conference organized by Indian Film and Television Directors Association (IFTDA) in Mumbai on 8 June, 2016. (Inset) Indian Bollywood film director Anurag Kashyap — AFP photos

Stop acting like 'grandmother', India court tells censor

Indian Bollywood actors Shahid Kapoor (left ) and Alia Bhatt (second left) and directors Madhu Mantena Varma (second right) and Mahesh Bhatt talk during a press conference organized by Indian Film and Television Directors Association (IFTDA) in Mumbai on 8 June, 2016. (Inset) Indian Bollywood film director Anurag Kashyap — AFP photosA top court told India's film censor board yesterday not to act "like a grandmother" as it overturned a...

Saq Al Bamboo

‘Saq Al Bamboo’ and ‘Been Galbin’: Episode 7

KUWAIT: Kuwait Times is publishing a daily recap of two Kuwaiti soap operas aired on Al Rai TV and MBC Drama. Here are the recaps of the seventh episodes: Saq Al Bamboo'Saq Al Bamboo' (Bamboo Stalk)After Khawla convinces her grandmother Ghanima to meet Eisa, Ghasan brings him to the house. Rashid's sister Nooriya makes fun of him and suggests he takes money and leave Kuwait, as she flatly rejects him being a member of the family. She even says...

Producer of “Hamilton” Jeffrey Seller and cast accepts the award for best musical at the Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre on Sunday. — AP/AFP photos

'Hamilton' wins big at Tonys but fails to break record

Producer of “Hamilton” Jeffrey Seller and cast accepts the award for best musical at the Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre on Sunday. — AP/AFP photos"Hamilton," the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, won the 2016 Tony Award for best new musical, capping an emotional night in which many in the Broadway community rallied to embrace the LGBT community after a shooting at a gay Florida nightclub. Lin-Manuel Miranda's...

Emiratis watch a bullfight in Fujairah. — AFP photos

Bloodless bullfights earn Gulf owners big bucks

Emiratis watch a bullfight in Fujairah. — AFP photosThere's no matador, betting or blood when bulls lock horns in the Gulf emirate of Fujairah, but a winning beast in the popular sport can still earn its owner a fortune. Bullfights are a weekly event at a ring close to the beach on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates. Organizers admit the sport is rough but insist it is animal-friendly, and they ensure the bull is never killed. While...

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SAINT-DENIS: Sweden's midfielder Emil Forsberg (R) and Ireland's midfielder Glenn Whelan (L) vie for the ball during the Euro 2016 group E football match between Ireland and Sweden at the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis yesterday. -- AFP

Sweden fightback holds Ireland after Hoolahan beauty

SAINT-DENIS: Sweden's midfielder Emil Forsberg (R) and Ireland's midfielder Glenn Whelan (L) vie for the ball during the Euro 2016 group E football match between Ireland and Sweden at the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis yesterday. -- AFPPARIS: Wes Hoolahan's brilliant finish was not enough to give the Republic of Ireland a winning start to Euro 2016 as Ciaran Clark's own goal ensured a 1-1 draw with Sweden yesterday.Hoolahan met Seamus...

TOULOUSE: Spain's Aritz Aduriz heads the ball during the Euro 2016 Group D soccer match between Spain and the Czech Republic at the Stadium municipal in Toulouse, France, yesterday. --AP

Pique's late header gives Spain win over Czechs

TOULOUSE: Spain's Aritz Aduriz heads the ball during the Euro 2016 Group D soccer match between Spain and the Czech Republic at the Stadium municipal in Toulouse, France, yesterday. --APTOULOUSE: Reigning champions Spain left it late but Gerard Pique's 87th-minute header earned them a deserved 1-0 victory over a dogged Czech Republic in their Euro 2016 Group D opener yesterday.Pique headed in Andres Iniesta's "incredible" cross to give Czech...

VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ: Germany’s goalkeeper Manuel Neuer (C) catches the ball during the Euro 2016 group C football match between Germany and Ukraine at the Stade Pierre Mauroy in Villeneuve-d’Ascq near Lille on Sunday. — AFP

Mustafi helps Germany to nervy win over Ukraine

VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ: Germany’s goalkeeper Manuel Neuer (C) catches the ball during the Euro 2016 group C football match between Germany and Ukraine at the Stade Pierre Mauroy in Villeneuve-d’Ascq near Lille on Sunday. — AFPLILLE: Stand-in centre back Shkodran Mustafi headed his first goal for Germany and Bastian Schweinsteiger scored in stoppage time as the world champions survived several scares to beat Ukraine 2-0 in their opening Euro...

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Gulf Bank Chairman Bader Al-Kharafi

Gulf Bank, Boubyan Bank mull merger into Islamic bank

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TEHRAN: Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh (center) flashes the victory sign during a swearing in ceremony of the new president at the parliament in Tehran on July 30 2024. - AFP

HANIYEH ASSASSINATED

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KUWAIT: First Deputy PM and Defense and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef Al-Sabah receives Dr Emad Yousef on July 31, 2024. - KUNA

MoI: No one above the law

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(File photo) Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyah, standing in front of a portrait of the radical group's slain spiritual guide Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, addresses the crowd during rally by the radical group in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, 16 September 2005. - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on July 31, 2024, its political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Zionist strike in Iran, where he was attending the inauguration of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go unanswered". — AFP

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Zionist strike

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Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment Dr Anwar Al-Mudhaf with Morocco's Ambassador to Kuwait Ali bin Issa. - KUNA

Kuwait’s investments in Morocco reach $1.5 bn