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Kuwait’s Rajih Al-Hamidani (center) receives the ‘flag of poetry’ after winning the final of the televised program Million’s Poet at Abu Dhabi’s Al-Raha Theatre. — AFP photos
Oil riches help keep alive Bedouin poetry
Kuwait’s Rajih Al-Hamidani (center) receives the ‘flag of poetry’ after winning the final of the televised program Million’s Poet at Abu Dhabi’s Al-Raha Theatre. — AFP photosThe Middle East's poetry equivalent of "Pop Idol" is helping to keep alive an age-old tradition using Bedouin dialect, which is barely understood outside the Arabian Gulf. Apart from the glory, a Kuwaiti student took home five million dirhams ($1.36 million), the...
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US Embargo n Sanctions
ISTANBUL: HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (right), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center) and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second right) pose with leaders and representatives of participant countries yesterday during the World Humanitarian Summit. — AFP
World Humanitarian Summit vital to end suffering: Amir - Leaders meet to fix 'broken' aid system
ISTANBUL: HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (right), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center) and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second right) pose with leaders and representatives of participant countries yesterday during the World Humanitarian Summit. — AFPISTANBUL: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah stressed on the importance of holding the first World Humanitarian Summit in the Turkish capital...
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Fee increases mulled for citizens, expats
KUWAIT: High-ranking legal sources said that the government is currently studying the legality of increasing the fees it collects for public services and using public facilities from both citizens and expats, including a bill defining the facilities and services to be included in the suggested increases."We are currently working on verifying the legality of a government's bill including a table with all services and facilities it believes it is...
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UK to hand over unwelcome bedoons: Jarrah
Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah Al-SabahKUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior's (MoI) Assistant Undersecretary for Citizenship and Residency Affairs Major General Mazen Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah left yesterday for London with a security and diplomatic delegation to represent Kuwait at the Kuwaiti-British Friendship Council meetings. Speaking to reporters before his departure, Jarrah explained that various security topics would be discussed during the visit,...
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7.5 percent annual raise to oil workers
KUWAIT: Following threats and statements vowing that the government would never yield to oil sector pressure and demands made through threats to go on strike, it seems that oil unions have actually won the battle. The ministerial committee entrusted to negotiate under the chairmanship of Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah made an agreement with the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Confederation...
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Sierra Leone Ambassador to Kuwait Ibrahim Kamara clarifies maids issue
The issue of maltreatment of Sierra Leonean house maids in the State of Kuwait is a subject that has been circulating over the social media for some time now and the conditions reported by the house maids themselves have been a source of serious concern not only to their relatives and friends at home and abroad but more so to the Government of the Republic of Sierra Leone and the Government of the State of Kuwait.There is a lot of misconception...
MP Saadoun Hammad and MP Adnan Abdulsamad
Panel refers labor amendments for voting - Budgets committee wants proposed spending cut by 15%
MP Saadoun Hammad and MP Adnan AbdulsamadKUWAIT: The National Assembly's health and labor committee yesterday gave its final approval to amend five articles in the 2010 labor law in the private sector to mainly stiffen penalties against visa traders, rapporteur of the panel said. MP Saadoun Hammad said the amendments will be sent to the national assembly for debate during today's session.The committee however postponed discussing proposals to...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah chairs yesterday’s cabinet meeting. — KUNA
Cabinet discusses flaws in country's demographics
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet’s meeting yesterday. — KUNAKUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Planning and Development Hind Al-Subaih yesterday briefed the Cabinet on a report issued by a committee tasked with remedying some flaws in the country's demographics. Subaih noted that progress has been made on the issue and work is underway to...
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Brothel busted - 3 Ethiopian and 3 Bangladeshi men arrested
KUWAIT: A Farwaniya brothel was stormed by vice police, who arrested three Ethiopian women and three Bangladeshi men who ran the place. The suspects confessed to charging KD 5 per client.Illegal affairFollowing up a case filed by a female citizen in her thirties accusing a citizen in his forties of assaulting her, detectives found that the couple had been having an illegal affair, said security sources. Interrogating the man, he told the police...
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Officer admits planting drugs in citizen's car
KUWAIT: A high-ranking criminal investigation officer was arrested for receiving bribes and planting drugs in a citizen's vehicle to get rid of him in order to make way for a business tycoon who admired his wife, said security sources. Case papers indicate that a citizen and his wife, who works in one of the ministries, reported that a businessman they know had been harassing them and trying to ruin their marriage.Accordingly, the high-ranking...
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Bangladeshi Bootlegger arrested
KUWAIT: A Bangladeshi man was arrested in Mahboula with 90 homebrewed liquor bottles ready for sale, said security sources. Case papers indicate that a police patrol suspected a car that was in a very bad condition, and on stopping and searching it, they found the liquor bottles. A case was filed. Meanwhile, a citizen was arrested in Farwaniya with drugs, said security sources, noting that on being stopped by a police patrol, the man tried to...
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