Новости за 26.11.2019

Public revenues rise, but wages eat up over half the budget KUWAIT: MPs yesterday continued to press new Prime Minister HH Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to form a government with a clear roadmap to tackle major challenges facing the country, mainly fighting corruption and resolving the problem of stateless people. MP Adel Al-Damkhi called on […]

30,000 non-Kuwaiti students currently registered in public schools KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education (MoE) is currently listing all non-Kuwaiti students in various public schools pending expelling those who do not meet public school admission conditions, well-informed sources said. “The current numbers indicate that a great deal of violations are involved,” the sources said. They added […]

KUWAIT: Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Acting Finance Minister Mariam Al-Aqeel denied reports claiming that she gave orders to terminate a number of Kuwaiti pilots, engineers and employees at Kuwait Airways. “Such reports are completely fake,” Aqeel stressed, noting that hiring or terminating Kuwait Airways pilots, engineers or employees is out of her […]

KUWAIT: Recent justice ministry statistics showed the number of electronic crime cases at the courts reached 1,057 during the first half of the year, which is an increase of more than 3,300 percent compared to the first six months of 2018, with 18 cases only. Judicial sources said the cases are presented by individuals against […]

KUWAIT: A survey on social violence by the Kuwait Society for Human Rights showed 54 percent of women (of various nationalities) in Kuwait are victims of violence. The survey was presented by lawyer Atyab Al-Shatti during a symposium titled ‘towards a national vision to eradicate violence against women.’ Psychological abuse tops the list (45 percent), […]

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man was killed and two others were injured in an accident reported on the Sixth Ring Road Monday night. Occupational Jahra fire station men dealt with the accident. An investigation was opened to reveal the cause of the deadly crash. Car crashes into store A driver yesterday lost control over his vehicle […]

KUWAIT: The Director General of the Dasman Diabetes Institute Dr Qais Saleh Al-Duwairi met with the Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Eastern Mediterranean Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, where they discussed fostering potential means of collaborations between the Institute and WHO. During the visit, they discussed scientific and research topics and issues […]

As the world gets closer to celebrating the fourth anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement, the optimism and enthusiasm surrounding this historic achievement is muted. Countries around the world have collectively failed to curb the rise of greenhouse gas emissions, which have risen 1.5 percent per year in the last decade and hit a new […]

10th British Trade Expo kicks off in Kuwait KUWAIT: The volume of trade exchange between Kuwait and Britain reached $4 billion last year, British Ambassador to Kuwait Michael Davenport said. Speaking at a press conference on the opening of the Kuwait-Britain exhibition, Davenport lauded the growing trade exchange between the two countries. He pointed to […]

M Night Shyamalan-who shot to fame with his supernatural hit film “The Sixth Sense”-hasn’t worked much in television, but he’s bringing his uncanny aesthetic to the new Apple TV+ platform with the series “Servant.” The director of “Unbreakable,” “Glass” and “The Village” is aiming high with the new series, the first three episodes of which […]