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KUWAIT: Philippine Labor Attache Cesar Chavez (left) speaks to Kuwait Times yesterday, in presence of Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Renato Pedro Villa
No ban on hiring Filipino helpers by expatriates - Rules tightened to prevent trafficking; 2,500 Filipinos arrive monthly
KUWAIT: Philippine Labor Attache Cesar Chavez (left) speaks to Kuwait Times yesterday, in presence of Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Renato Pedro VillaKUWAIT: There is no discrimination with regards to employing Filipino domestic helpers by expats, Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Renato Pedro Villa told reporters yesterday, but he added the rules have been tightened to prevent human trafficking. The envoy was responding after Kuwait Times and a...
Minister Yaqoub Al-Sane
Awqaf terminates 1,500 expats
Minister Yaqoub Al-SaneKUWAIT: Minister of Justice, Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Yaqoub Al-Sane recently laid off 1,500 expatriates working for the ministry, granting them a two-month notice to adjust their legal statuses. Sane issued ministerial decision number 123/2016 pertaining stopping employment on a commission system effective on May 11, 2016, exempting Kuwaitis and bedoons (stateless) hired on this system.Informed sources said that the...
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No proposal to deport expats: Traffic chief
Major General Abdallah Al-MuhannaKUWAIT: Assistant Interior Ministry Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Major General Abdullah Al-Muhanna said the proposal to raise the value of traffic fines is with the fatwa and legislation department, and hoped it would be approved soon. He said the proposal to increase fees for traffic services is still being studied.Muhanna denied that the traffic sector presented a cars crushing project, adding that the...
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Crackdown on part-time domestic helpers soon
KUWAIT: Director of the Domestic Labor Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MSAL) Mohammed Al-Ajmi announced his department's intention to launch various inspection campaigns before the month of Ramadan to pursue 'part-time' domestic helpers working for expats and citizens for limited hours. Ajmi added that very strict measures would be followed with both helpers and those who hire them, in addition to any fake domestic labor...
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Jaber Stadium, Causeway referred to prosecution
KUWAIT: The parliament's public funds protection committee recommended referring four files to the Public Prosecution in order to investigate money squandering suspicions based on State Audit Bureau reports. The panel discussed the bureau's reports yesterday and found out that there are suspicions of wasting public funds in the Jaber Stadium's construction project, the Jaber Causeway's tender, the contract between Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and...
KUWAIT: This photo provided by the Interior Ministry shows members of a gang arrested for money laundry yesterday
Twelve-member money laundry gang busted
KUWAIT: This photo provided by the Interior Ministry shows members of a gang arrested for money laundry yesterdayKUWAIT: Twelve people were arrested yesterday for money laundering, said security sources. They noted that the gang specialized in stealing credit card numbers and using special equipment they imported to forge other credit cards with the names of dead people to deposit funds illegally. The sources explained that once they made the...
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Filipina stabbed in the eye
KUWAIT: A Filipina woman was stabbed in her eye by her husband, a citizen, who was reportedly under the influence of drugs. The woman was rushed to hospital while her husband escaped. A call came to police from a house in Mahboula from neighbors about the attack against the woman. Police and paramedics went to the building and rushed the woman to hospital. Police are investigating.Fake mobile phonesThe Commercial supervision department at the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia
Putin withdraws forces from Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, RussiaMOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday ordered the defense ministry to begin the withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria from today. "The task that was set before our defense ministry and armed forces has as a whole been completed and so I order the defense ministry to from tomorrow...
BEIRUT: A Lebanese demonstrator lies holding her national flag blocking the Dawra road, a major highway leading towards Beirut - slowing down rush hour traffic, in protest after authorities said they would reopen a landfill to ease an eight-month rubbish crisis. — AFP
Lebanon ‘You Stink’ protesters slow traffic
BEIRUT: A Lebanese demonstrator lies holding her national flag blocking the Dawra road, a major highway leading towards Beirut - slowing down rush hour traffic, in protest after authorities said they would reopen a landfill to ease an eight-month rubbish crisis. — AFPBEIRUT: Lebanese protesters slowed rush hour traffic on several highways leading towards Beirut yesterday after authorities said they would reopen a landfill to ease an...
A general view taken from the Al-Qaboun rebel held northeastern suburb of the capital Damascus shows damaged buildings in the nearby Jobar neighborhood. — AFP
Syrian war creates child refugees, child soldiers - 'No Place for Children'
A general view taken from the Al-Qaboun rebel held northeastern suburb of the capital Damascus shows damaged buildings in the nearby Jobar neighborhood. — AFPBEIRUT: Syria's five-year-old conflict has created 2.4 million child refugees, killed many and led to the recruitment of children as fighters, some as young as seven, UN children's fund UNICEF said yesterday. Its report "No Place for Children" said more than 8 million children in Syria...
RADA: An Al-Qaeda militant sits with his gun in the city of Rada, 130km (85 miles) southeast of the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Rivals Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group are cementing their presence in south Yemen in the absence of state authority and little opposition from pro-government Arab coalition forces, experts say. — AFP
Rise of jihadists in Yemen may be unstoppable
RADA: An Al-Qaeda militant sits with his gun in the city of Rada, 130km (85 miles) southeast of the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Rivals Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group are cementing their presence in south Yemen in the absence of state authority and little opposition from pro-government Arab coalition forces, experts say. — AFPADEN: Rivals Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group are cementing their presence in south Yemen in the absence of state...
GRAND-BASSAM: People gather around the body of a man reported by witnesses as a jihadist after attackers stormed three hotels in the weekend resort of Grand-Bassam, a short 40-kilometre drive from the commercial capital Abidjan. — AFP
Qaeda claims deadly attack at Ivory Coast beach resort
GRAND-BASSAM: People gather around the body of a man reported by witnesses as a jihadist after attackers stormed three hotels in the weekend resort of Grand-Bassam, a short 40-kilometre drive from the commercial capital Abidjan. — AFPGRAND-BASSAM: Gunmen killed 16 people at an Ivory Coast resort Sunday leaving bodies strewn on the beach, in an attack claimed by an Al-Qaeda affiliate as fears grow of a mounting jihadist threat in west Africa....
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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MAJDAL SHAMS: Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in this Druze town in the Zionist-annexed Golan Heights on July 28, 2024. - AFP
Mideast seethes amid carnage
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KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP
The impact of oil discoveries
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‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns
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The image shows a finger directing attention to A PET CT scan image shows comprehensive views of organs and tissues isolated on white background. Clipping path.
MoH underlines importance of compact imaging device