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Major General Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah
Married female absconders can shift to dependent visa
Major General Sheikh Mazen Al-JarrahKUWAIT: Security sources said Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Nationality and Passport Major General Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah issued decisions to reduce the number of those on the absconding list. Al-Jarrah ordered the "absconding" be lifted from married females on Article 18 visas and transfer their residency to Article 22, under their husbands as dependents.The husband must have a valid...
Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi
Health Minister calls for reducing private hospital buildings' areas
Health Minister Dr Ali Al-ObaidiKUWAIT: Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi has called on Kuwait Municipality to reduce land area restrictions for private hospitals in order to allow smaller private hospitals to be built. Obaidi added that according to earlier regulations, a general private hospital's area was required to be at least 5,000 square meters and a specialized hospital had to be on land of at least 3,000 square meters.The minister...
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Ministry bans drones for security reasons
KUWAIT: The recent seizure of a remote-control drone hovering above the Ministry of Interior's (MoI) headquarters call for immediate and strict measures to prevent the threats such drones pose to national security, said security sources. The sources explained that MoI has contacted the civil aviation department, the ministry of commerce and industry and the customs demanding a ban on importing such aircraft without prior permission from MoI. The...
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VAT crucial to economic stability: economists
KUWAIT: Two Kuwaiti economists agreed that levying of a value added tax (VAT) is crucial to stability of the state's economic policies and offsetting the budget deficit under the current low prices of oil. VAT has a distinctive feature, that is the provision of a high cash yield to the state, Dr Nayf Al-Shemmeri, professor of economics at Kuwait University (KU), said in statements."This tax is linked to the value of consumption and is applicable...
MP Rakan Al-Nisf
Lawmaker demands lists of expats between 2003-2015
MP Rakan Al-NisfKUWAIT: MP Rakan Al-Nisf asked Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to provide him with lists of expatriates who were granted residency visas in the period from 2003 to 2015. The lawmaker also asked for detailed statistics about each of those years.'Original Kuwaitis'Following his argument with his colleague Mohammed Tana Al-Enezi, MP Jamal Al-Omar repeated his accusations of Enezi of not...
Source: The Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Index of Economic Freedom
Kuwait ranked 74th in economic freedom index - State listed as 'moderately free' ahead of France
Source: The Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Index of Economic FreedomKUWAIT: Kuwait retained its 74th rank globally in the latest economic freedom index released by the Heritage Foundation. Kuwait earned a score of 62.7 out of 100, putting it as a 'moderately free' country ahead of France, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and with states like Poland, Belgium, and Spain in the same category. Kuwait made only a 0.2 improvement compared to last year's...
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Agriculture Authority to plant 35 million seedlings
KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Agriculture and Fish Resources Affairs (PAAFRA) yesterday announced the adoption of a plan aimed at planting 35 million seedlings for the rehabilitation of Kuwait's wild environment to produce seedlings from fungal plants inside a number of reserves on an area of 1,600 square kilometers.The PAAFRA is currently working on implementing a number of pergolas in Al-Abdali area with an area extended over 40,000 square...
KUWAIT: This archive photo shows an artists’ rendition of the planned renovation of the Bidaa Roundabout. — KUNA
Bidaa Roundabout to get upgrade
KUWAIT: This archive photo shows an artists’ rendition of the planned renovation of the Bidaa Roundabout. — KUNAKUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works (MPW) will spend KD 14 million to upgrade the Al-Bida'a Roundabout in a bid to ease traffic flow. It is unclear when construction will commence or the schedule for completion but the project includes widening of the Balajat and Taawon roads on the seaside and a grade level exchange.The three...
A truck parked in a planted area in violation of the environment protection law.
Nine visas renewed on fake company's file - Scores arrested in Ahmadi campaign
KUWAIT: Residency detectives uncovered forgeries in official documents that belong to a contracting company owned by female citizen. When the commercial license of the company was being checked, doubts came up with regards to the authority of the contract and rent receipts, so the companies' department was contacted to make sure about the license and copies were requested of the original renewal transactions. Meanwhile, the building owner was...
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More bribes for travel ban escape at the airport
KUWAIT: A policeman from Kuwait International Airport to the prosecution for enabling an Egyptian man who is banned from traveling, to leave the country without documenting his movement in the computer. Director General of Residency Detectives Department Brig Saud Al-Khader learned from an undercover source that an Egyptian left the country without having his departure documented in the computer at the airport.Concerned authorities asked Interpol...
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Juwaihel fined KD 20,000
KUWAIT: A court yesterday sentenced Mohammed Al-Juwaihel to a KD 20,000 compensation in case filed against him by former MP Musallam Al-Barrak. The two former lawmakers have a history of conflict. In March 2011, a court sentenced Juwaihel, a political activist and owner of the satellite channel Al-Sour, to a year in prison for slandering Barrak and another lawmaker; Sadoun Al-Otaibi during a 2009 live television broadcast. However, Juwaihel was...
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The Pakistan-Kuwait relations
The Pakistan-Kuwait relations are brotherly, based on shared history, traditions and common culture. Both countries have always enjoyed their bilateral, friendly, trade and cultural ties with enormous respect of their commonality and cultural traditions. The bilateral relations exist both at the official-government level and at the peoples' level. Time has proved that both countries have stood for each other in their most difficult and testing...
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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