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Islam prohibits the consumption of pork and alcohol, which means many perfumes and lard-based lipsticks are among beauty products that are off limits to strictly observant Muslims. — AFP photo

Halal makeup: Muslim beauty without the beast

Islam prohibits the consumption of pork and alcohol, which means many perfumes and lard-based lipsticks are among beauty products that are off limits to strictly observant Muslims. — AFP photoA bearded imam may have seemed out of place at this week's In-Cosmetics expo in Paris, an annual showcase for the world's leading beauty and personal care products. But Shaikh Ali Achcar's presence points to a growing demand for makeup that adheres not...

An Iranian woman checks make up at a cosmetics shop in northern Tehran in this file photo. — AFP

Nail polish and mascara: Beauty brands eye up Iran

An Iranian woman checks make up at a cosmetics shop in northern Tehran in this file photo. — AFPWhen Dubai businesswoman Negin Fattahi-Dasmal opened the first branch of her luxurious nail salon chain in Iran this year, it was met with both excitement and skepticism among image-conscious young Iranians. Despite-or perhaps partly because of-strict Islamic dress codes, cosmetics sales in Iran are among the highest in the Middle East. Women are...

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KUWAIT: A general view shows the Shuaiba oil refinery yesterday. Oil workers plan to go on strike today in protest against what they call the government’s plan to cut their annual benefits and bonuses. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Oil union rejects govt appeal to cancel strike - Saleh urges workers to renegotiate

KUWAIT: A general view shows the Shuaiba oil refinery yesterday. Oil workers plan to go on strike today in protest against what they call the government’s plan to cut their annual benefits and bonuses. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: The oil sector employees' union reiterated its determination to go ahead with its strike today, turning down an appeal from the acting oil minister to call off the total strike in protest at alleged pay cuts...

MP Faisal Al-Shaya

Kuwaitis in apartments to be exempted from paying higher power fees: Lawmaker

MP Faisal Al-ShayaKUWAIT: Chairman of the parliamentary financial affairs committee MP Faisal Al-Shaya said that the committee would rephrase the new electricity consumption tariff law to add new amendments to exempt citizens living in investment residential buildings from the new prices as well. This step helps prevent a scenario where Kuwaitis living in apartments would challenge the constitutionality of the law based on the fact that it does...

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Kuwait's real estate sales rebound

KUWAIT: Real estate sales in Kuwait rebounded in February, following a slowdown in recent months, with commercial sales outpacing residential for the first time in eight years. According to a report published by the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) in March, total sales reached KD261 million ($865 million) in February, a 17 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) increase and up 22 percent over January.Lending is also on the rise as the government moves to...

The Ahmadi Refinery

KNPC describes closure of refinery units as 'normal'

The Ahmadi RefineryKUWAIT: Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) said yesterday the closure of some units at Al-Ahmadi refinery is a normal procedure owing to regular maintenance or integration into a biofuel venture executed at the refinery as well as Mina Abdullah port.The company said in a press release that online reports about the closure of operating units at the refiner under the exceptional circumstances experienced by the oil sector...

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Subsidized food sold illegally in Jleeb

KUWAIT: Commercial supervision and consumer protection teams at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) raided an illegal market in a Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh building yesterday. Tons of subsidized supply goods were offered for sale at the building's basement. The raid was led by MoCI's Assistant Undersecretary for Commercial Supervision and Consumer Protection Affairs Eid Al-Rasheedi, who said that the raid resulted in confiscating four tons of...

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State administration

Muna Al Fuzai Why does Kuwait look as if the wheel of progress has stopped in it? The most important question is who bears the responsibility for the mistakes made and what is the way out? Starting from Kuwait International Airport, you feel as if time has gone back 20 years, and while all rich and poor countries enjoy new, clean and comfortable airports for passengers, ours often seems a very busy one because it is very small. Going outside...

GENEVA: Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim is pictured with Kuwaiti inventor Nasser Issa Al-Jimaz. — KUNA

Kuwaiti teen wins silver at Geneva inventions exhibition

GENEVA: Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim is pictured with Kuwaiti inventor Nasser Issa Al-Jimaz. — KUNAGENEVA: Kuwaiti inventor Nasser Issa Al-Jimaz, 16, won on Friday the silver award of the 44th International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva (2016) for innovations in the field of environment protection.He exhibited a new mechanism for reducing the carbon dioxide emissions through absorbing these emissions from air, treating them chemically and...

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Only 40 percent Kuwaitis exercise regularly: Study

KUWAIT: Forty percent of citizens of both sexes in Kuwait practice physical exercise, a Ministry of Health official said, pointing out that the decline in the ratio is attributed to personal, social and environmental obstacles.Efforts are needed to create an integrated program to promote health including environmental modifications in order to surpass the issue of high temperatures and provide suitable places for physical activity, said Dr Abeer...

KUWAIT: Dr Mohammad Al-Refaei, President of the Children’s Union of Nurseries in Kuwait (CUNK) speaks to Kuwait Times.

Union chief speaks about decision to shift nurseries under education ministry

KUWAIT: Dr Mohammad Al-Refaei, President of the Children’s Union of Nurseries in Kuwait (CUNK) speaks to Kuwait Times.KUWAIT: According to a recently issued law, nurseries will work under the authority of the Ministry of Education instead of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, which was supervising them earlier. But the application of this law was recently deferred for another three months. After the law was passed by the parliament, it...

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