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Authority prepares labor tests
KUWAIT: Acting Director of the Manpower Public Authority (MPA) Ahmad Al-Mousa said the authority’s organizational structure was modified by creating a fourth sector for planning and evaluating professional skills, to join the three current sectors - recruitment and employment, manpower protection and human resources.Mousa said that following the Cabinet’s decision to move the center of approving skill levels from the Cabinet to MPA, the new...
KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah is seen during the inauguration ceremony. —KUNA
Ministry gets advanced remote broadcast vans
KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah is seen during the inauguration ceremony. —KUNAKUWAIT: The Ministry of Information is keen on streamlining the process of news coverage, having just acquired four state-of-the-art mobile remote broadcast television studio vans to cover TV and Radio events at their live locations, said Minister of Information and Minister of...
KUWAIT: The Pakistani Naval Ship Zulfiquar docked at Shuwaikh Port Monday.—Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh
Pakistani Navy frigate in Kuwait on goodwill visit
KUWAIT: The Pakistani Naval Ship Zulfiquar docked at Shuwaikh Port Monday.—Photos by Fouad Al-ShaikhKUWAIT: Pakistani Naval frigate, PNS Zulfiquar, docked at Shuwaikh Port Monday on a four-day goodwill visit to the country aimed at boosting bilateral ties with Kuwait. "Pakistan Navy (PN) enjoys close and cordial relation with Kuwaiti naval forces. I'm very confident that Zulfiquar's visit to Kuwait will further strengthening the brotherly ties...
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Five-member theft gang busted - All Indians
KUWAIT: Public funds forgery departments busted a five-member international gang who stole from companies through financial transfers that were forged professionally, then left the country as soon as they completed the transactions. Security sources said the five, all Indians, entered Kuwait on May 1 for a few hours and went to several local banks with forged documents signed by major companies in Kuwait to transfer millions in funds.The sources...
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Firemen control Shuwaikh industrial area blaze
KUWAIT: Seven fire brigades joined forces and succeeded to control a fire that broke out at carpentry in Al-Shuwaikh industrial area, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said yesterday, adding that no causalities were reported. The fire covered an area of almost 2,000 square meters, Deputy Director at KFSD Brigadier Khaled Al-Mikrad said.Only martial damage was reported and investigation is underway to determine cause of the blaze, he noted....
KUWAIT: These photos provided by Kuwait Municipality show houses where construction violations were detected during crackdowns.
Home owner removes floor built illegally
KUWAIT: These photos provided by Kuwait Municipality show houses where construction violations were detected during crackdowns.KUWAIT: Capital and Mubarak Al-Kabeer municipality branches found 100 houses in violation of the construction law. Assistant Director General for Capital and Mubarak Al-Kabeer Affairs Faisal Al-Jumaah said the owner of a house under construction had built more than three floors, and a warning was issued to remove the...
DUBAI: In this Sept 22, 2015 photo, with the Marina Waterfront skyline in the background, laborers work at a construction site at the Palm Jumeirah. — AP
Expats trapped by debts amid slowdown in Gulf
DOHA: The economic slowdown gripping countries across the Arabian Gulf can be seen in layoffs, slowed construction projects and government cutbacks. For the millions of foreign workers drawn by brighter job prospects, it can have a far-darker side if they find themselves deep in debt. Gulf countries largely don't have bankruptcy laws, leaving laid-off workers on the hook for huge outstanding sums while often banned from traveling outside of the...
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Stowaway found aboard flight from China to Dubai
DUBAI: A teenage boy sneaked into the cargo hold of an Emirates passenger plane in China and made it all the way to Dubai before being apprehended, the airline and Chinese media said yesterday. The Dubai-based airline, the Middle East's biggest, said the stowaway was found in the cargo hold of Flight EK303 from Shanghai on Friday, May 27. "We are cooperating fully with authorities in Dubai and as this is a police matter we are unable to comment...
FALLUJAH: Smoke rises as Iraqi counterterrorism forces face off with Islamic State militants on the southern edge of Fallujah yesterday, a day after launching an operation of the militant-held city with the help of US-led coalition airstrikes. — AP
IS halts Iraqi army at Fallujah gates - UN warns human catastrophe unfolding
FALLUJAH: Smoke rises as Iraqi counterterrorism forces face off with Islamic State militants on the southern edge of Fallujah yesterday, a day after launching an operation of the militant-held city with the help of US-led coalition airstrikes. — APBAGHDAD: Iraqi forces faced tough resistance from the Islamic State group yesterday as they attempted to enter the center of Fallujah, where there were mounting fears for thousands of trapped...
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EU’s top lawyer backs ‘work headscarf’ ban
BRUSSELS: The most senior lawyer at the EU's top court said yesterday that companies may ban Muslim headscarves if they are enforcing a general prohibition on religious symbols in the workplace. The case concerns a woman, Samira Achbita, who was fired by Belgian security firm G4S Secure Solutions after she insisted on being allowed to go to work while wearing a headscarf for religious reasons. The opinion expressed by the advocate general to the...
AT SEA: A Sea-Watch crew member holds a drowned baby as dead bodies were recovered after a wooden boat transporting migrants had capsized off the Libyan coast. — AFP
Drowned migrant baby - a photo wake-up call for EU
AT SEA: A Sea-Watch crew member holds a drowned baby as dead bodies were recovered after a wooden boat transporting migrants had capsized off the Libyan coast. — AFPBERLIN: A photo of a dead migrant baby pulled from the Mediterranean was published by a charity hoping to force European leaders to grant migrants safe passage, after hundreds were presumed to have died at sea last week. The baby in the photograph was not identified, but the German...
GAZA: A Palestinian vendor hangs corn on the cob at his stand along the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City’s fishing harbor yesterday. The harbor is one of the few open public spaces in this densely populated city. — AP
Hamas executes 3 in Gaza, drawing UN condemnation - Executions not authorized by Abbas
GAZA: A Palestinian vendor hangs corn on the cob at his stand along the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City’s fishing harbor yesterday. The harbor is one of the few open public spaces in this densely populated city. — APGAZA CITY: Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip executed three Palestinian men for murder yesterday, the attorney general said, drawing condemnation from the United Nations. The three, who were not named and whose cases were...
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