Новости за 17.04.2019

Al-Kharafi: Zain Saudi Arabia continues to record net profit for three consecutive quarters KUWAIT: Zain Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA), announces impressive financial results for all key indicators for the first quarter ended 31 March, 2019. For the first quarter of 2019, Zain KSA recorded revenues of SAR 2.1 billion ($558 million), a 24 percent increase […]

MPs debate employment of Kuwaitis, inflated bank accounts case KUWAIT: Expatriates will now have to pay a fee of KD 10 when receiving treatment at public hospitals, the health ministry said yesterday. The measure aims to ease congestion at public hospitals, while allowing government-run clinics to take in more patients, the ministry said in a […]

Awqaf ministry ends labor contract with violating company KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Manpower is reviewing rules and conditions of registering and estimating the needs of small projects, so that new rules are added to guarantee that advantages given to their owners are not abused, or open a backdoor for visa trafficking. Sources said the […]

KUWAIT: A senior government official yesterday said 18.6 percent of the 22,434 public and private school students surveyed recently have abused drugs. Drug-related deaths increased to 116 in 2018 after 68 such cases were recorded in 2017, Director of Drugs Control General Department Brig Bader Al-Ghadouri said in a statement. – Meshaal Al-Enezi

KUWAIT: Policemen are looking for a masked thief who used pepper spray during his crimes. A police source said a 42-year-old Indian woman from Mangaf sought police’s help, saying a masked man stormed her apartment and sprayed her with pepper spray. She said she became unconscious after falling on the ground, noting that money and […]

Speaker Ghanem, Malaysian counterpart hold official talks KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber-Al-Sabah received yesterday at Bayan Palace Kuwait’s National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and Malaysia’s Speaker of the House of Representatives Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof. His Highness the Amir also received President of the Supreme Judicial Council and Constitutional Court and […]

Award strengthens the role of Kuwait’s leadership in the field of the Holy Quran: Minister KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah patronized and attended Kuwait’s 10th International Award for Memorizing the Holy Quran at Bayan Palace yesterday. His Highness the Amir was received by Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Fahad […]

KUALA LUMPUR: Islamic officials in Malaysia have launched an investigation into a public event that discussed women who stop wearing the hijab, according to a group of female activists who spoke at the forum. The probe into Saturday’s “Malay Women and De-hijabbing” talk is the latest sign of growing Muslim conservatism in the multi-ethnic nation, […]

‘We are in danger ……… Please help us’ TBILISI: Two Saudi sisters took to Twitter yesterday to plead for international protection and a safe haven, saying their lives would be at risk if they went back to the conservative kingdom. The women, in their 20s, said they had arrived in the former Soviet republic of […]

SANAA: Yemen’s Houthi rebels yesterday slammed US President Donald Trump’s veto of a Congress resolution directing him to end support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen as proof Washington was behind the conflict. The resolution had aimed to end US backing for a war that Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi labeled “a horrific humanitarian crisis”, […]