Новости за 10.03.2019

KUWAIT: Dasman Diabetes Institute, founded by Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, recently organized the French Diabetes Days conference in collaboration with the French Embassy in Kuwait, Sanofi, URGO Medical and Universite Cote d’Azur. The conference was held at the Institute on March 10 and 11, 2019. The conference offered participants a platform to […]

KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Residency Affairs Maj Gen Talal Maarafi yesterday announced the start of the implementation of ministerial decision 135/2019, which calls for stopping the use of the residency sticker and substituting it with the civil ID. He said the first stage of the decision is being implemented for article 20 […]

Security cameras to be installed in 37 new facilities KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works and Minister of State for Housing Affairs Jenan Bushehri said the total number of expats working for the Ministry of Public Works (MPW) since 2016 make up only 3.9 percent of the ministry’s total manpower. In a memo addressing the parliament, […]

KUWAIT: Opposition MP Riyadh Al-Adasani yesterday threatened to grill two ministers and the prime minister if he does not get proper answers over alleged violations in the ports fund, in which the government holds a majority stake. Adasani said he sent questions over the issue to the minister of commerce, who supervises the fund, and […]

KUWAIT: Security sources said around 2,200 Arab and Asian expats were deported in January and February 2019. Expats are usually deported for violating residency or labor laws or involvement in criminal cases including traffic violations, felonies and crimes. The sources said that some sponsors cooperate with the authorities and purchase tickets for their workers from […]

KUWAIT: The traffic department in cooperation with Public Authority for Roads and Transport will close the entrance and exit across from the Civil Service Commission’s building on Airport Road on Wednesday, March 13, for 45 days to complete the final work on the Jahra road project. The alternative roads are: Entrance to Jahra road before […]

KUWAIT: The total number of dialysis patients in Kuwait is around with an annual increase of 8 percent, said the head of kidney diseases and transplants at Hamed Al-Essa Organ Transplant Center, Dr Turki Al-Otaibi. Speaking on the occasion of World Kidney Day, observed on the second Thursday of March, Otaibi said the day will […]

KUWAIT: Firemen rescued two persons who were trapped under a refrigerated container that fell on them in Jahra. The container was affixed to a steel base, and was filled with excess weight on one side, so it tipped over. The rescue operation was complicated and needed skilled firemen to ensure the safety of the workers. […]

YANGON: Nine policemen have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, police said yesterday, as tensions ratchet up in a state riven by ethnic and religious conflict. A bloody military crackdown in 2017 forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into Bangladesh in violence UN investigators have said warrants the […]

DHANNA: Chaudhry Hakam Deen has a bunker – a cold, damp hole dug in the ground – next to his home where he and his family have often taken refuge amid soaring tensions with India. Spending the night inside, he said, “feels like sitting in a graveyard”. The shelter dates from the Kargil conflict, a […]

People from more than 30 countries were on board – Amir sends condolences BISHOFTU, Ethiopia: A Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 crashed minutes after an early-morning takeoff from Addis Ababa yesterday, killing all eight crew and 149 passengers on board, including tourists, business travellers, and at least one delegate to a UN meeting. Amid a global stream […]

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