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Mike Weston,nVice President - Cisco Middle East

Cisco Cloud Index projects that cloud traffic in MEA will quadruple by 2019

Mike Weston,Vice President - Cisco Middle EastKUWAIT: The fifth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2014-2019), released recently, forecasts that Middle East and Africa cloud traffic will more than quadruple by the end of 2019. Additionally, by 2019, 83 percent of all MEA data center traffic will come from the cloud.From a regional perspective, the report found that MEA is expected to have the highest cloud traffic growth rate at 41 percent by...

Bosaina while performing at the concert

The second Red Bull Music Academy session Kuwait: A great success!

Bosaina while performing at the concertMusic unites. This is not just a common say, rather, it is what happened for two days at Dar Al-Athar Al- Islamiya in Yarmouk. Red Bull Music Academy has brought together artists from different parts of the world to Kuwait in order to share their passion and participate in the second Red Bull Music Academy Session Kuwait. The academy gathered musicians, composers, producers and vocalists from Kuwait and...

Models display creations designed by ha-ha design team

Boys in pink: 'Genderless' fashion goes big in Japan

Models display creations designed by ha-ha design teamNo stranger to barrettes, bows and beauty products, Japanese Instagram icon and model Genking is a proud flag bearer for "genderless" fashion in which young men adopt unequivocally feminine styles and challenge traditional norms. Although women around the world have taken to menswear in droves- sporting trousers since the 1930s when French fashion legend Coco Chanel put her equestrian clients...

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Jaden Smith: Gender specific clothes don’t exist

Jaden Smith doesn’t think gender specific clothes exist. The 17- year-old actor regularly wears a long skirt over his skin-tight trousers and is very free with his fashion choices. And Jaden - who has just been selected by Karl Lagerfeld to be a new Chanel ambassador - doesn’t understand why people feel they have to conform when it comes to clothes and insists everyone should experiment with all styles. Speaking in GQ Style magazine, he said:...

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Central bank may act if budget deficit isn't cut - Monetary policy may have to be changed

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Central Bank governor has warned that authorities may have to change monetary policy if the government does not act urgently to cut a budget deficit caused by low oil prices. Mohammad Al-Hashel said the legislative and executive branches of the government needed in the next two months to prove to the rest of the world that public finances were sustainable, Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh told state news agency KUNA yesterday.If...

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New rules ban employees from discussing oil sector topics

KUWAIT: At a time when the new administrative rules of Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) and its companies were approved during the latest meeting of the Higher Petroleum Council, it seems the rules that were omitted from the list before its final approval is an administrative “catch” that would cause uproar in the entire oil sector, especially since the new list had rules and amendments that ban employees from discussing anything about the oil...

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Over 1,500 arrested in Shuwaikh crackdown

KUWAIT: More than 1,500 people were arrested during a security campaign held last Saturday at Shuwaikh Industrial area, and led by Interior Ministry's Assistant Undersecretary for General Security Affairs Major General Abdel Fattah Al-Ali. Police inspected papers of a total of 3,911 persons during the campaign. Out of those, 1,566 people were sent to concerned authorities and deportation centers. They include 257 arrested for violation of...

Aedes Aegypti mosquito larvae are photographed in a lab of the International Training and Medical Research Center (CIDEIM) in Cali, Colombia. CIDEIM scientists are studying the genetics and biology of Aedes Aegypti mosquito which transmits the Zika, Chikungunya, Dengue and Yellow Fever viruses, to control their reproduction and resistance to insecticides. — AFP

WHO official lauds Kuwait’s efforts to face Zika virus

KUWAIT: World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ala Alwan has praised Kuwait for taking measures to face the Zika virus. In a press conference on Saturday, Alwan stressed that the Middle East is free of the virus, referring to the precautionary moves taken by the region's countries.According to the WHO official, Kuwait has acquainted the organization with the measures it took, especially enhancing...

Attorney Fajer Ahmed

Passports and other employee rights

In Kuwait, we are blessed to have developed laws and a developed legal system as well as a constitution. The Kuwait Labor Law of 2006 is one of the best in the region and even the world - employees only work eight hours per day (some countries go up to 12 hours), receive termination indemnity, three months' termination notice and many other benefits. Yet, there are still some people who do not apply the law as they should and can be unlawful...

Ali Al-Moussa

Panel recommends withdrawing lands not used for six years

Ali Al-MoussaKUWAIT: Chairman of Kuwait's structural plan committee at the Municipal Council Ali Al-Moussa said that the committee recommended activating the council's decision on withdrawing land plots that had been allotted for government bodies and not used for six years. Speaking during the committee's meeting yesterday, Moussa pointed out that the recommendations were made because some government bodies were not serious in executing...

Dr Feras Raad

World Bank announces support for Kuwait reforms

Dr Feras RaadKUWAIT: The World Bank (WB) supports reform steps that have been taken by Kuwait and view them as of utter significance for attaining development objectives, said the WB Office Director in Kuwait. In an interview with KUNA, Dr Feras Raad said the package of measures, declared by Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh, aim to accomplish short and medium-term reforms at the political and financial levels, namely regarding privatization,...

KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry for Traffic Major General Abdullah Al-Muhanna is seen during the inauguration ceremony of the 32nd Gulf Traffic Week.

Gulf Traffic Week reflects pan-GCC coordination: Official

KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry for Traffic Major General Abdullah Al-Muhanna is seen during the inauguration ceremony of the 32nd Gulf Traffic Week.KUWAIT: The 32nd Gulf Traffic Week is an unequivocal sign of pan-GCC coordination, progress and prosperity, said a senior security official.While welcoming visiting Gulf delegations, Assistant Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry for Traffic Major General Abdullah...

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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

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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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