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CSC forwards proposal to council
KUWAIT CITY, March 1: There are all indications the government will suspend the appointment of expatriate personnel in the public sector to reduce the amount of salaries allotted in the budget to maintain interna...
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KUWAIT CITY, Aug 12: Expatriate employees should get their passports from their sponsors as the latter have no right to keep such documents, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Dr Mohammad Al-Afasi said Wednesday after his meeting with the Health, Social...
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KUWAIT, March 15, (KUNA): Ninety percent of road accidents are coupled with lack of attention while driving, Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs at the Ministry of Interior Major General Mahmoud Al-Dousari said Sunday. His remarks came on the o...
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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 17, (Agencies): Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund does not plan to reduce its overseas investments despite launching a KD 1.5 billion ($5.17 billion) fund to invest in local stock markets, the finance minister said. “We won’t lower f...
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KUWAIT CITY, Dec 19: Internet service in Kuwait was disrupted Friday from 11.15 am as three major fiber cables were cut in the Mediterranean Sea, Fast Telecommunication Com-pany told the Arab Times. Meanwhile, Shaheed Al-Sateeh, Manager at Reliance Global...
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KUWAIT CITY, Dec 10: Major hypermarkets in Kuwait affirmed that they are not selling Irish beef in the wake of growing concern over the quality of beef in the country after the Irish authorities reported Tuesday that three herds of cattle in Ireland were ...
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After a long wait and desperation finally this has happened. All incoming International/Local will be free now with all mobile operators in Kuwait. Yes its true, competition has struck into action and a long waited wish has come true. This is a moment of ...
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KUWAIT CITY, Nov 22: The General Immigration Department at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) has issued a decision not to extend visit visas effective January 2009, reports Al-Shahid daily quoting reliable sources from the department. After conducting...
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KUWAIT: The Burgan Bank announced the opening of the Burgan 'Value Account' yesterday. It is a service that is tailor-made to suit the needs of the expatriate community in Kuwait. This account is the first of its kind in Kuwait to offer benefits such as l...
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KUWAIT CITY, Oct 14: Minister of Interior Sheikh Jaber Al-Khaled strongly refuted allegations that the ministry was tapping all landline and mobile phones, saying “Kuwait is not a police state, it is a land of institutions,” reports Al-Rai daily. Th...
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KUWAIT CITY, Oct 6, (Agencies): “Nearly 20,000 illegal residents utilized the Amiri amnesty and left the country without paying fines,” say sources at the General Department of Immigration, adding officials expect at least 40,000 expatriates to...
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KUWAIT CITY, Oct 4: Health Minister Ali Al-Barrak has adopted a policy to replace expatriate health center managers with Kuwaitis, as part of the Kuwaitization process in the ministry, reports Al-Seyassah. According to a reliable ministry source, Al-Bar...
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26, (KUNA): His Highness the Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah here Thursday reiterated the need to have more transprency in UN Security Council (UNSC), and increase its members to achieve equality in represen...
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KUWAIT CITY, Sept 16, (AFP): Arab stock markets across the energy-rich Gulf resisted further large losses on Tuesday, a day after a sharp decline on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and a big drop in oil prices. The Saudi bourse, the largest in the Arab wor...
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KUWAIT, Sept 16, (RTRS): Kuwaiti lenders have probably no exposure to US bank Lehman Brothers after it filed for bankruptcy protection, the head of the Kuwaiti banking association said on Tuesday. “I don’t know the numbers but investments of banks o...
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Jordanian King Abdullah II arrived on Tuesday and held immediate talks with His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and top leaders of the Gulf state. Shortly upon arrival, the monarch, along with the accompanying delegation, was r...
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KUWAIT: Kuwait has been witnessing a spate of private satellite channels recently after new regulations were approved a couple of years ago permitting private channels to operate in the country. Since then television viewers have been pampered by a host o...
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KUWAIT CITY, Sept 5: Director of Depor-tation Center at the Ministry of Interior Colonel Ahmad Ali Al-Rejaiba has called on all residence law violators to use the 45-day amnesty offer which allows residence law violators to leave the country without pay...
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 5, (KUNA): Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday said there is no progress in the cleaning of the Lebanese coast from the oil spill following the Israeli bombing of el Jiyeh power plant during the 2006 war because of Israel’s ...
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KUWAIT (KUNA): Expatriates eager to legalise their illegal residency status would be more than welcome to do so and the Interior Ministry would help on this aspect, said an official Wednesday. Interior Ministry’s undersecretary for citizenship affairs...
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