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Fees for expats medical services; $1 million a day spent on chocolate
KUWAIT: The parliament's legislative committee on Sunday passed a proposal to amend article 12 of the expatriates' health insurance law, in order to impose fees on health services provided to foreigners in Kuwait. The proposal was presented by Deputy Speaker Mubarak Al-Khurainej. - Al-Rai$1 million a day spent on chocolateKUWAIT: Nearly $1 million are spent on chocolate in Kuwait every day, recent statistics on the state's growing chocolate...
Minister Hind Al-Subaih
Lawmaker to grill labor minister over trafficking - Maliya underpass scrapped over 'immorality' fears
Minister Hind Al-SubaihKUWAIT: MP Mohammad Tana Al-Enezi announced intentions to file a new grilling motion against Minister of Social Affairs and labor, Minister of Planning and Development Hind Al-Subaih, inquiring about an interview she gave to Al-Majlis TV channel. Enezi added that his grilling motion would also focus on visa traffickers and demands to name and expose them before the entire Kuwaiti society.He also said he demanded that the...
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Tourists flock to Kuwait's shopping malls
The Avenues MallKUWAIT: The bustling indoor malls have emerged in the past years as one of the most popular attractions to foreign visitors to Kuwait, especially those from the neighboring Gulf countries.This fact has spurred the government and private sector to invest more in developing this sector to meet the demands and satisfy the diverse tastes of the visitors. Several new shopping malls have opened in Kuwait in recent years including...
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Kuwait bans live birds from UK over H5N1
KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Agriculture and Fish Resources Affairs (PAAFRA) banned yesterday imports of live birds, eggs and one-day-old chicks from the UK because of the outbreak of the pathogenic H5N1 bird flu.PAAFRA in a statement stressed the importance of subjecting all incoming consignments to PAAFRA's requirements and restrictions, in line with the relevant procedures of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the veterinary...
KUWAIT: A view of the Municipal Council’s meeting yesterday.— Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh
Council allocates 2 sq km area for tire recycling
KUWAIT: A view of the Municipal Council’s meeting yesterday.— Photo by Fouad Al-ShaikhKUWAIT: The Municipal Council yesterday agreed to allocate a two-square-kilometer area in Sheqaya to be used by Public Authority for Industry for recycling used tires.During its weekly meeting, the council also agreed to adjust the allowed building areas at Abu Fatira and Ardiya industrial areas to be 100 percent of the total area including basements and...
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KNPC seeks to cut spending on maintenance by 15%: official
KUWAIT: The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) works on cutting spending on maintenance up to 15 percent, in light of a sustained low oil price, an official said yesterday. In remarks to reporters on sidelines of the second annual meeting on maintenance, Mohammad Saud Al-Shammari, a maintenance manager at KNPC's Shuaiba Refinery, stressed that the cut will not be at the expense of the company's security and safety.The company spends about...
Undersecretary of the State Audit Bureau (SAB) Ismail Al-Ghanim speaks at the meeting.
State Audit Bureau asserts right to oversee projects
Undersecretary of the State Audit Bureau (SAB) Ismail Al-Ghanim speaks at the meeting.KUWAIT: Undersecretary of the State Audit Bureau (SAB) Ismail Al-Ghanim stressed yesterday the significance of prior surveillance over projects, saying it cannot impede the implementation of ventures.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines on a meeting of the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) and Arab Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ARABOSAI) with...
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Al-Barayeh smart city project wins first rank in Gulf region
KUWAIT: Al-Barayeh smart city environmental project, designed by Kuwaiti engineer Faisal Al-Jehaim, won first rank in the best environmental project prize in the Gulf region. The prize was offered by the 19th Gulf Engineering Forum, organized by Kuwait Society for Engineers in Kuwait.Barayeh in Arabic is the open area in Kuwait in the past where family members and children in particular used to gather offering the nucleus of social...
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Gas blast in Salmiya flat kills woman
KUWAIT: An Asian woman was killed while two others sustained burns of various degree when a fire caused by a gas leak broke out in a three-storey building in Salmiya yesterday, said security sources. The fire started when three cooking gas cylinders exploded in a ground-floor apartment, blowing off part of the ceiling, wall and spreading to a vehicle that was parked outside the building.Security sources added that firemen from Salmiya rushed to...
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Good Samaritan saves Filipina woman from kidnappers
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti recently rescued a Filipina woman who had been kidnapped by three people in Fintas, said security sources. The man told police that he was heading to his vehicle when he heard the woman scream for help. He added that he ran towards the suspects, who appeared to be of Asian nationalities, but they let the woman go and drove off the scene. The citizen then took the woman to the police station to file a complaint. Further...
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Inspection campaign launched in Fintas, Fahaheel and Sabahiya - 15 companies closed
KUWAIT: Ahmadi detectives recently launched an inspection campaign in Fintas, Fahaheel and Sabahiya, which resulted in arresting five people who had been wanted for various cases and impounding the vehicle of a reckless driver, said security sources. Adding that another campaign in Mahboula resulted in arresting three fugitives, impounding three vehicles and filing five traffic citations. Meanwhile, Ahmadi traffic police yesterday launched an...
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Who said Nazism is dead?
One of the main reasons why Nazism collapsed was that it began as a political, racist, ethnological, nationalistic idea to exclude others, whoever they were, and look down upon any non-Aryan races. It was from such racist ideas and goals that Adolf Hitler acted to impose his expansionist domination. The same idea was also adopted by German doctors and scientists who started Nazi eugenics, which were Nazi Germany's racial-based social policies...
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KUWAIT CITY: Jassim Al-Awadhi waits at a bus stop as a bus approaches in this file photo.
Disorganized bus network behind lacking transit system
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Kuwait's fencer Yusuf Al-Shamlan
Shamlan leaves Olympic Games
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KUWAIT: Young girls participate in Girl Up Kuwait's first conference which focused on the role of women in Kuwaiti society and politics.
Girl Up Kuwait: Young trailblazers give girls a voice
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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones