Новости за 15.04.2019

KUWAIT: Rapporteur of the National Assembly’s health and labor committee MP Osama Al-Shaheen yesterday warned the government of a serious political confrontation including grillings over the controversial amendments to the labor law in the private sector. Shaheen said the committee received a letter from Minister of State for Economic Affairs Mariam Al-Aqeel saying the government […]

KUWAIT: The Amiri Diwan has taken over the project to renovate the Entertainment City which has been closed since July 2016, a local daily reported yesterday. Quoting a letter it says was sent from the Cabinet to Kuwait Municipality, Al-Qabas said that the Diwan will take over responsibility of completing and following up the project […]

KUWAIT: The Civil Service Commission (CSC) said the number of the unemployed citizens according to the latest statistics reached 14,828, with between 8,000 and 9,000 holding intermediate and elementary school certificates. CSC argued that many of those registered in the employment system have very old data, adding that they were contacted several times to renew […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait Health Ministry signed yesterday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a non-profit organization that works on barcodes on a project to monitor drug and medical consumables through a barcode to ensure its safe use and patient safety. In a press statement, Assistant Undersecretary for Food and Drug Control at the Ministry of Health […]

Sharq workshops to be evacuated to eliminate ‘environmental harm’ KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Minister of State for Economic Affairs Maryam Al-Aqeel briefed the Cabinet yesterday about privatization of the North Shuaiba Power Plant, part of the state’s quest to privatize services. During the Cabinet’s weekly meeting chaired by Acting Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Nasser Sabah […]

KUWAIT: The Drugs Control General Department arrested a man yesterday with of 39 kg of chemical, 50,000 Captagon tablets, 4 kg of shabu, 250 gm of hashish and a pistol. The arrest was made during a raid on the suspect’s Kabd farm. He said the drugs belong to a central prison inmate and he works […]

CITRA hosts ‘Best Practices in Cyber Investigations’ seminar KUWAIT: Cybercrime is a rising threat – with a stroke of a fingertip, a criminal can wreak havoc for businesses, people and governments around the world, said Jill Rose of the US Department of Justice and Resident Legal Advisor at the US Embassy in Kuwait. She was […]

Spire, roof of centuries-old landmark collapse – Macron tweets ’emotion of a whole nation’ PARIS: A colossal fire swept through the famed Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris yesterday, causing its spire to collapse, quickly followed by the entire roof, and raising fears over the future of the nearly millennium-old building and its precious artworks. The […]

TEL AVIV: Scientists in Israel unveiled a 3D print of a heart with human tissue and vessels yesterday, calling it a first and a “major medical breakthrough” that advances possibilities for transplants. While it remains a far way off, scientists hope one day to be able to produce hearts suitable for transplant into humans as […]