Новости за 10.02.2019

DUBAI: In the event a tax law is introduced in Kuwait, it would be “no different” than other legislation, requiring it to pass through parliament as stipulated by the constitution, the finance minister said yesterday. “A prospective tax law in Kuwait has been a recurring topic of discussion among our partners in the region,” Nayef […]

More than 4,000 students carry Kuwaiti flag measuring 2019 meters KUWAIT: Kuwait registered a world record yesterday for the longest flag, after over 4,000 students paraded with a 2019-meter-long Kuwaiti flag along a road that was blocked to traffic. The feat was recognized by the Guinness World Records. The event coincided with the national celebrations […]

KUWAIT: Municipality Director Ahmed Al-Manfouhi yesterday said Kuwait removes 4,000 tons of garbage daily, the highest daily garbage collection rate in the world. Responding to an inquiry about cleaning services in various areas, Manfouhi said the total value of current cleaning contracts has surpassed KD 285 million. – A Saleh

Municipality approves secondhand vehicles market location KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) assessment department recently completed assessing the performance of 62,513 Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti ministry employees in 2018. Health sources said results are due by mid-March, noting that according to Civil Service Commission (CSC) resolution number 36/2006 amended by resolution number 15/2017, 30 percent of […]

LAHORE: A Pakistani journalist under scrutiny for anti-government social media posts was beaten and seized outside his home on Saturday, his son said, in the latest sign of pressure on media. Rizwan Razi, who worked for private Din TV in the city of Lahore, was being investigated for “defamatory and obnoxious” comments about the judiciary, […]

DHAKA: Bangladesh seized a record 53 million methamphetamine pills in 2018 – up 33 percent in a year-amid a deadly nationwide crackdown on the trade, officials said yesterday. Nearly 300 suspected drug dealers were killed last year, according to authorities, who insisted the seizure figure was proof that their campaign was working. Rights groups said […]

ANKARA: Turkey on Saturday condemned China’s treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur people. “The systematic assimilation policy of Chinese authorities towards Uighur Turks is a great embarrassment for humanity,” Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement. “It is no longer a secret that more than one million Uighur Turks – who are […]

WASHINGTON: The support for a boycott of Israel by the first two Muslim women in the US Congress has opened a breach in the Democratic Party and threatens to create a fissure in the ironclad US-Israeli alliance. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib made their debut in the House of Representatives in January openly declaring their […]

KUWAIT: Considered one of the most serious crimes of the modern era, cybercrimes require a double effort to be addressed, Deputy Director of Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies Dr Fahad Abu Sulaib said. This came in a speech delivered by Abu Sulaib yesterday at the opening of the institute’s four-day workshop entitled ‘Investigations […]

I am really grateful that I get to work with smart entrepreneurs in Kuwait who have a vision and work really hard to see their dreams manifest. More and more people in Kuwait, both Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti, young and old, female and male, college-educated and street-smart, are establishing their own businesses and ventures, whether it […]

KUWAIT: On a day that saw Eastern Conference powerhouses retool ahead of the NBA Trade Deadline, arguably the biggest story on Thursday was the New Orleans Pelicans deciding to keep their embattled Center Anthony Davis and wait until the summer to possibly deal their disgruntled superstar. The Los Angeles Lakers, whose last offer to the […]