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Zain Group teams up with GSMA to disclose climate impacts
GSMA-led climate initiative to develop de-carbonization pathway for mobile sector Zain Vice Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-Kharafi LONDON/KUWAIT: Zain announces it has teamed up with the GSMA and many of the world's largest mobile operator groups to start disclosing their climate impacts as part of a major new GSMA-led initiative to develop a mobile industry climate action roadmap in line with the Paris Agreement. Zain along with more than 50...
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Kuwait's consumer spending growth maintains upward momentum in Q3
Rise in consumer lending sustains spending outlookKUWAIT: Consumer spending growth saw a better-than-anticipated pick-up so far in Q3, consistent with strong loan growth, a steady macroeconomic climate, healthy employment growth and as oil prices hovered around $60/bbl. We expect these factors to persist this year and offset the softness in wage growth, ultimately keeping consumer spending at encouraging levels. The NBK consumer spending index...
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Armed with tech tools, Colombian cities combat mosquito-borne diseases
App helps monitor, reduce spread of infectious diseasesBOGOTA: Armed with a mobile app, Glenis Barragan has been knocking from door to door in the poor neighborhoods of Colombia's northern city of Cucuta, aiming to combat the spread of the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease. In the past year, Barragan has helped fellow residents identify and destroy mosquito breeding grounds - from water stored in containers and buckets in homes to puddles of...
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Booming Bollywood comes home for 'Oscars' 20th edition
Mumbai hosts the "Bollywood Oscars" for the first time in India in 20 years this week with the megastars, movers and shakers of a booming Hindi film industry celebrating another bumper year, including in huge markets like China. With nearly 1,800 titles released in 2018, the South Asian country is the biggest film industry in the world in terms of movies made, its flicks wowing viewers from Australia to Afghanistan to Africa. The industry grew...
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Fashion bad boy Gvasalia quits Vetements
Fashion's enfant terrible Demna Gvasalia yesterday quit Vetements, the uber hip streetwear brand he founded, in a move which shocked fashion. The Georgian designer took Paris fashion by storm in 2014 with his customized $800 hoodies and ironic "poverty chic" aesthetic, taking the clothes of the poor and selling them the rich. His brother Guram, with whom he co-founded Vetements, confirmed his departure. The 38-year-old made headlines from the...
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GIG’s Battle Fitness Festival to lead Middle East fitness events
KUWAIT: Gulf Insurance Group, one of the leading insurance service providers in Middle East and North Africa region announced its long term collaboration Circuit+ Fitness to organize the region's largest fitness events, 'gig Battle Fitness Festival'. The event will take place at the Green Island on November 1 and 2, 2019 with more than 2,500 athletes, spectators and volunteers registered to attend. Athletes will compete in a number of games,...
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NBK grants Eyad's dream to race come true
KUWAIT: Eyad Adnan Al Shami, 16 years old, is undergoing treatment at NBK Hospital and suffers from brain tumor, has always desired to live a race experience. NBK helped in making his dream come true in cooperation with Kuwait Motor Town, operated by Diwan Al Amiri, Road Rush and Ali Al Ghanim & Sons Automotive Company. Before the race, NBK and Kuwait Motor Town team welcomed Eyad and provided him with a race-spec outfit. Eyad enjoyed a full...
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MR D0ne's Game On
KUWAIT: Mr D0ne's Game On, is an E-Football initiative comprising of an E-Sports Competition with a compelling twist that's held in 3 different locations across Kuwait in September and October 2019. Abdulaziz Alshehri, who also goes by the alias Mr.D0ne, is a Red Bull E-Sports athlete and the first-ever player from the Middle East to win the FIFA eWorld Cup. The Saudi Arabian player won what was then the FIFA Interactive World Cup Grand Final...
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Iraq signs deal to plug into Gulf power grid
BAGHDAD: Iraq yesterday signed a landmark deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council for a transmission line that would import 500 megawatts of electricity to its overstretched grid by 2020. The 300-km transmission line would run from Kuwait to Iraq's southern port of Faw and be financed by the GCC, according to the electricity ministry. It is the second deal the ministry signed in as many days to boost electricity supply in Iraq, where generation...
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Kuwait probes drone sighting, PM promises tougher security
Saudi races to restore oil supply - Iraq denies links to attack - Iran refutes US accusations A satellite image provided by NASA Worldview on Saturday shows fires following drone strikes on two major oil installation owned by the state giant Aramco in eastern Saudi Arabia. - AFP KUWAIT/RIYADH: Kuwait is investigating the sighting of a drone over its territory and is coordinating with Saudi Arabia and other countries after Saturday's attacks on...
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Activists slam Hashem over anti-expat calls
KUWAIT: Social media activists yesterday criticized MP Safa Al-Hashem for repeating calls that expatriates must pay for the "air they breathe" and for walking on roads. Activists went to Twitter to describe the Kuwaiti lawmaker as "racist" and "very arrogant", but some activists defended her views as a solution to resolve the demographic problem in which expatriates outnumber Kuwaiti citizens. MP Hashem in press statements yesterday reiterated...
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10,000 clothing items with fake logos seized
KUWAIT: The ministry of commerce and industry's trade control and consumer protection department raided a warehouse in Hawally used to store thousands of T-shirts and sportswear on which logos of international brands were being printed, which is deemed as commercial fraud under local laws. A statement issued by the ministry explained that on monitoring the sale of counterfeit goods in the local market, investigations led to the warehouse, where...
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HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arrives in Scotland on the personal invitation of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland on Jan 14, 2025. - Amiri Diwn photos
Amir’s visit to UK boosts ties
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Britain's King Charles III (L) welcomes Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, during an audience at Buckingham Palace, in London, on October 25, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt / POOL / AFP)
Amir’s visit to UK... a significant milestone in Kuwaiti British relations
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Amir departs to the UK at personal invitation of King Charles III