Новости за 14.02.2019

‘First privatization of its kind in Kuwait’ KUWAIT: Al-Kharafi and Al-Bahar consortium have won the Kuwait Boursa privatization auction, taking a 44% equity stake in the local stock exchange at 237 fils per share. Bader Al-Kharafi is the official representative of the consortium. “This groundbreaking investment will prove a milestone in the development and growth […]

‘Contradicts with Kuwait’s stance against normalizing ties with Israel’ KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti political movement strongly criticized a senior Kuwaiti government official for appearing in a group photo that also featured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, taken while participating in an international conference on the Middle East. “We highly condemn the appearance of Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign […]

Early one morning, a mother and her daughter went to a tailor to get a new dress stitched. The tailor, while taking the measurements of the child, groped the little girl when her mother was not looking, and kept praising her “cuteness” and how beautiful she was. After leaving the shop, the mother remembered she […]

KUWAIT: There are 630 non-Kuwaitis in leading teaching positions in various educational areas, according to statistics issued by the Ministry of Education (MOE) yesterday. The statistic also showed that MOE is committed to ‘Kuwaitizing’ those leading positions, with exceptions given to subjects where there is scarcity of Kuwaiti nominees, such as science and French language […]

KUWAIT: Rescue forces at Mishref fire brigade were dispatched to a restaurant in the area to save a kitchen worker after his hand got stuck inside a meat mincing machine in a restaurant. Rescuers used special tools to free the Asian man’s hand from the machine before he was rushed to hospital for further medical […]

According to society, an ideal marriage for a woman like me would be to marry a male version of me (or my labels, for that matter). In other words: A Sunni; a Kuwaiti; someone from the same social standing as me (whatever that means); someone who shares my culture; someone of the opposite sex. A […]

Saudi authorities launched a public campaign a week ago, applying a new system that compels all food outlets and restaurants to specify the calorie count of their meals. All food places are required by law now to mark the number of calories on all their meals to enable the consumer to know how much fat, […]

KUWAIT: The State of Kuwait marks today the International Childhood Cancer Day (ICCD) with various public and private entities launching initiatives and activities to spread awareness on this important matter. Various individuals spoke about the matter, highlighting Kuwait’s national efforts in this regard, stressing the vitality of spreading information on how to prevent cancer and […]

TEHRAN: A suicide attack that killed 27 troops in Iran’s restive southeast on Wednesday was claimed by Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni Muslim extremist group that only emerged seven years ago. Jaish al-Adl-Army of Justice in Arabic-is seen as the incarnation of Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, which began a bloody rebellion against the Islamic republic […]

KUALA LUMPUR: An Indonesian man has been mauled to death by a crocodile in Malaysia, with his horrified nephew spotting the victim disappearing into a river during the attack, police said yesterday. Muh Tahir Majid Syam, 40, went missing while hunting for crabs with his nephew on Tuesday by a river in Sarawak state on […]