Новости за 06.05.2021

By B Izzak KUWAIT: MP Hisham Al-Saleh yesterday submitted a draft law calling on authorities to grant thousands of stateless people or bedoons the Kuwaiti citizenship to end decades of sufferings for them. The draft law stipulates that concerned authorities should within one year of approving this legislation start granting bedoons who or their forefathers […]

KUWAIT: Zain’s gaming brand, Zain esports, successfully launched the second season of the ‘Duwaween Games’ virtual championships. The competition kicked-off during the Holy Month of Ramadan with the participation of over 1,600 players. The Zain esports digital platform opened up new horizons during the second season of the ‘Duwaween Games’ virtual championships. Zain esports introduced […]

KUWAIT: Prior to having the honor to present her credentials to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, British Ambassador to Kuwait Belinda Lewis began her work from the ambassador’s residence during her quarantine. She has begun her social outreach through her Twitter account “@Belinda_Lewis1.” The Ambassador have Tweeted in Arabic, as she […]

KUWAIT: As part of the bank’s ongoing Ramadan social responsibility program, Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) made a financial contribution to the Kuwait Red Crescent Society towards educational support for students from needy families, in addition to supporting the distribution of food boxes to help under-privileged families. Fawzy Al-Thunayan, General Manager of Board Affairs at […]

By Nejoud Al-Yagout We are in the midst of a pandemic, a pandemic that has yet to go away. 2021 is a whole lot more promising than last year with the vaccine, but we are still facing countless deaths, and we all know people being admitted to the ICU, along with tragic stories of suicides, […]

By Shakir Reshamwala Food waste is a major problem in Kuwait, and a poor disposal system only compounds it. “Forty percent of food is wasted around the world due to rampant consumerism, enough for three meals a day for 800 million hungry people. We have to manage food to feed everyone,” said Mohammad Yousef Al-Muzaini, […]

By Sahar Moussa Choudhry works as a banker in the morning and an amateur photographer during his free hours. Born in Kuwait but brought up in Pakistan, he moved back to Kuwait in 2008. The 35-year-old Pakistani, who considers Kuwait his second home, started taking photos in 2010. According to Choudhry, this started as a […]

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One of the many things Napoleon Bonaparte was famous for was taking long soaks in the bath, during which he read newspapers and held forth to his entourage. It was a habit he carried over to isolated but relatively comfortable exile, reinforced by his doctor recommending it as therapy for chronic skin rashes. Now, the […]

A remote Japanese fishing town has sparked debate after spending coronavirus relief funds on a giant squid statue that cost nearly $250,000 in a controversial bid to boost post-pandemic tourism. The huge pink monument with its tentacles outstretched was unveiled in March by the coastal town of Noto in central Japan as a proud nod […]

A child no older than three laid to rest sideways in an earthen grave 78,000 years ago, legs carefully tucked up against its tiny chest, is the earliest known human burial in Africa, researchers reported Wednesday. The sunken pit, in a cave complex along the coast of Kenya, was bereft of ornaments, offerings or ochre-coloured […]

Thirty teenagers, thousands of hours of training, dozens of shattered dreams: it all comes to a head next week when the Blitzers will be launched into the cut-throat K-pop market, hoping to become the next BTS. An all-male septet-like the musical phenomenon that topped the US Billboard charts last year-their three years of training are […]

The Royal Family have led tributes to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s son on his second birthday. Using their official Twitter account, the Royal Family paid tribute to Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor – who has moved to the United States with his parents – on his second birthday. A post on the official Twitter account […]

It was a romance that helped inspire one of the great works of 20th-century fiction and a bitter conflict between his heirs, but a new book of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s love letters suggests a reconciliation may finally have been achieved. French aviator, poet and war hero Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince” is said to […]