Новости за 15.12.2019

$10bn for 2019-20 development plan – Call for curbs on private sector labor support KUWAIT: MPs rejected yesterday the possibility that the government might be compelled to withdraw from the Reserve Fund for Future Generations as suggested by Fitch Ratings in a report on Kuwait’s finances. The agency said in the report that the government […]

KUWAIT: The interior ministry has stipulated that anyone coming to Kuwait to work for the first time must produce two certificates showing a clean criminal record. The first police clearance certificate (PCC) must be from their country, authenticated by the Kuwaiti embassy if present, and should be obtained no more than three months before entering […]

Six Kuwaiti charities authorized to collect donations for refugees KUWAIT: Public Authority for Manpower officials are expected to meet with their counterparts from the union of domestic labor agencies later this month to discuss the possibility of cancelling an earlier decision preventing local domestic labor agencies from rehiring domestic helpers with different employers than their […]

KUWAIT: Salmiya medical center staff told police a woman was brought in dead with severe beating marks on her body. They said a Kuwait army soldier who brought her claimed the bruises were already on her body when she came to him. Detectives detained him for questioning. Separately, a motorist died after his sports utility […]

In recognition of its outstanding media and advertising efforts in 2019 KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, proudly received four awards as part of the seventh Kuwait Creativity Award. The award was organized by the Arab Media Forum at Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center (JACC) in strategic partnership with the International Advertising Association […]

KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait, first to launch innovated digital services in Kuwait has recently concluded its sponsorship to the second digital public relations conference and exhibition entitled “Digitalizing Strategic Communication for Confronting Public Relations Crises”, which was held at Kuwait’s National Library last Tuesday under the patronage of the Minister of Information and Minister of State […]

KUWAIT: Downtown Kuwait City as seen from Al-Shaheed Park at night. — Photo by Hajer Al-Ofaisan (KUNA)

GUWAHATI, India: Angry protesters in northeast India vowed yesterday to keep demonstrating against a contentious citizenship law as the death toll from bloody clashes opposing the bill rose to six. Tension remained high at the epicenter of the unrest in Assam state’s biggest city, Guwahati, with troops patrolling the streets amid tight security. In Assam, […]

TEL AVIV: With the world’s largest trade fair opening in an Arab country for the first time next year, Israel is stepping up preparations, hoping to boost nascent ties with regional neighbors. The Dubai Expo 2020 trade fair will gather nearly 200 countries vying for the attention of a projected 25 million visitors over nearly […]

Condemnation has been more strongly worded from outside the administration WASHINGTON: For the past two decades India has been enthusiastically feted in Washington, with politicians across the spectrum eager to nurture an alliance between the world’s two largest democracies. But as Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushes forward his Hindu nationalist agenda, India has suddenly found […]