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Zain reveals new thought leadership report at Davos - Report links innovation to overcoming regional challenges
KUWAIT/DAVOS: Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces the publication of its latest thought-leadership report entitled, 'Bringing the Future Closer with Innovation: Pursuing Innovation as a Means to Overcome Challenges in the MENA Region'. The report sets about illustrating the indispensable role of innovation in achieving sustainable development and transitioning towards a...
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Harnessing app technology in International Healthcare
KUWAIT: Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital (GOSH), one of the top five children's hospitals in the world, located in London, England, has developed GOSH Global, a free-to-download app that allows healthcare professionals throughout the world to access a comprehensive database of clinical specialties and world-leading consultants, and make an instant referral of a patient for treatment.With an increase in international patient referrals, GOSH...
MANILA: Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines waves during her homecoming press conference at a hotel in Manila yesterday. —AFP
Miss Universe to push HIV awareness after crowning blunder
MANILA: Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines waves during her homecoming press conference at a hotel in Manila yesterday. —AFPMANILA: The new Miss Universe, back in the Philippines after an epic televised blunder surrounding her crowning, said yesterday she would use the attention the incident attracted to campaign for HIV awareness, especially in her home country. In front of an estimated one billion television viewers...
Actress Allison Janney, left, and director and writer Sian Heder, right, pick up and swing actress Ellen Page, center, as they pose at the premiere of “Tallulah” during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival .— AP
Sundance film review: Ellen Page in 'Tallulah'
Actress Allison Janney, left, and director and writer Sian Heder, right, pick up and swing actress Ellen Page, center, as they pose at the premiere of “Tallulah” during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival .— APEllen Page lands her best starring vehicle since "Juno" in "Tallulah," a very different story of a young woman coming to terms with the idea of being a mother. The feature-length scripting-directing debut of "Orange Is the New Black"...
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Paris catwalks rediscover their cavalier swagger
Hold onto your horses. French fashion is back to its swashbuckling best and the designer leading the charge is a young mixed-race man determined to give post-attacks Paris a new swagger. "I want to make all men feel like princes again," Olivier Rousteing declared Saturday after his dashing, unashamedly masculine show for Balmain. Not since the days of the Charge of the Light Brigade has there been such an onrush of braid, breeches and boots....
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Kuwait set to enforce DNA testing law on all - Officials reassure tests won't be used to determine genealogy
KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s General Department of Criminal Evidence building, where the DNA identification lab is located. — Photos by Joseph ShagraKUWAIT: The DNA testing law that will go into effect this year is aimed at creating an integrated security database and does not include genealogical implications or affects personal freedoms and privacy. Senior officials told Kuwait Times that the law, the first of its kind in the world,...
KUWAIT: Policemen check the documents of workers in their residence in Bneid Al-Gar yesterday. — KUNA
No raids without warrants
KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah gave orders to Undersecretary Lieutenant General Suleiman Al-Fahad to make sure that officers obtain warrants from the public prosecution before raiding apartments in crackdowns against violators. The new instructions, which came after the Interior Ministry received complaints that police raid apartments without a warrant, further indicate that the raids must...
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No plans to collect income taxes
KUWAIT: Kuwait has no plans to collect income taxes from its citizens neither soon nor at any time in the future, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Acting Minister of Oil Dr Anas Al-Saleh said. Instated, the government is studying measures in cooperation with the National Assembly pertaining with collecting taxes from companies' net profits, he said, adding that the government currently focuses on rationalizing subsidies and...
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Govt could scrap employees' bonuses
KUWAIT: As part of the government's austerity measures, ministries will reconsider paying employees the 'excellent performance bonuses' in the 2016-2017 budget, well-informed sources said. These bonuses would not be paid according to present conditions, the sources said, adding that ministries would have to either cancel or reduce them down by limiting them to certain employees who match strict performance assessment conditions.The sources...
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The 2016 oil crisis
The price of oil has dropped significantly during the past few weeks. It went down to below $30 a barrel very quickly, and this is surely terrifying for us all. Now the question is how to react, and what effect will lower oil prices have in a highly volatile region like the Middle East? Can Gulf countries be impacted by this sharp decline? Most OPEC countries have set their current financial budgets on the basis of oil at a minimum of $80 a...
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Kuwaiti held in Tanzania for exporting animal species released
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti citizen, held in Tanzania since June, has been released and is back home, Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs Plenipotentiary Sami Abdulaziz Al- Hamad said on yesterday. The citizen was held there as of June 23 for violating the Tanzanian laws on exporting some animal species.The penalty in this case is a tremendous fine, or 20 years behind bars, Hamad told KUNA. But he was granted a release thanks to ceaseless...
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Crackdown at street market in Mahboula
KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality launched an inspection campaign in an illegal street market in Mahboula, where three truckloads of vegetables, fruits and used clothes were confiscated, said the acting municipal affairs manager at Hawally and Ahmadi municipalities Fahd Al-Shtaili. All unauthorized and illegal markets would be targeted and strictly dealt with, he noted.Medical servicesChairman of the Private Medical Professions Union Dr Adel Ashkenani...
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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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Air Force carries out aeromedical evacuation exercise
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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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Kuwaiti pilots learn to fly Turkish Bayraktar drones