New Saudi rules, fees for helpers, vehicles, cattle
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The interior ministry’s relations and security media department announced that Saudi Arabia has started implementing new measures concerning the entry of domestic helpers...
View ArticleCourt bars royal candidate, reinstates ex-MP Hashem
Kuwait Times Damkhi slams Iran • Ashour blasts sectarianism • Hackers target Ghanem KUWAIT: People attend an electoral campaign meeting of Islamist former MP candidate Adel Al-Damkhi on Saturday. —...
View ArticleTwo Romanian Prostitutes arrested in Mahboulah
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: A security source said residency affairs detectives were monitoring videos on social media showing two Romanian prostitutes making offers to meet anyone in any country. The two...
View ArticleEgyptian juveniles fight; 20 arrested in Kabd for residency law
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Four persons were involved in a fight and used knives, so police were called in and broke up the fight. One of those involved was stabbed in the shoulder. He was sent to Mubarak...
View ArticleCoastguards foil birds smuggling attempt
Kuwait Times Coastguards foil bird smuggling attempt KUWAIT: Coastguards foiled two attempts to smuggle 10 birds of prey and 101 houbara bustards via the sea. A boat was spotted south of Boubyan...
View ArticleIndia banned cash without homework: Congress leader
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: V M Sudheeran, president of Kerala state’s Congress committee meets with Farwaniya Governor Sheikh Faisal Al-Humoud Al-Malek Al-Sabah. KUWAIT: The India government’s shock decision...
View ArticleRailway project offered for bidding next year
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The Kuwait Authority For Partnership Projects (KAPP) is scheduled to offer the railway project’s tender for public bidding during the first half of 2017 because it is committed to...
View ArticleCabinet congratulate US President-Elect Trump
Kuwait Times Palestine thanks Kuwait for recognizing passport KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the Cabinet’s meeting yesterday. —KUNA KUWAIT: The...
View ArticleNew private hospitals to have reduced areas
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health will reduce the areas of private hospitals built in the future due to a lack of enough space to build hospitals the way they used to be, assistant...
View ArticleKuwaiti women: a tale of adversity, triumph
Kuwait Times Professor of social work at Kuwait University (KU) Dr Hayfa Al-Kandari and Political science professor at KU Dr Hanan Al-Hajeri KUWAIT: Utterly dedicated and laborious, Kuwaiti women have...
View Article55,376 eligible voters in 2nd constituency
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Total electorate for upcoming elections due on November 26 stands at 483,186, including 29,026 females in the second constituency. The number of franchised citizens in the...
View ArticleDashti out of election race after final court ruling
Kuwait Times Opposition candidates blast dissolved Assembly Abdulhameed Dashti KUWAIT: The court of cassation yesterday ruled former MP Abdulhameed Dashti cannot run in the parliamentary elections on...
View ArticleRapist, mother blackmail victim
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: A man and his friend abducted a young man, raped him and recorded the crime. They then demanded money and threatened to publish the video if he did not oblige, so he paid them KD...
View ArticleTwo bogus domestic help offices busted
Kuwait Times Two bogus domestic help offices busted KUWAIT: Residency detectives busted two bogus domestic help offices. The first was using absconding domestic helpers to work on daily bases, while...
View ArticleKuwait Science Club takes high resolution picture of supermoon
Kuwait Times Manpower authority collected over KD 18 million supermoon KUWAIT: Kuwait Science Club’s astronomy and space sciences department recorded the ‘supermoon’ appearing in Kuwait skies Monday...
View ArticleFormer MP Nisef welcomes boycotter’s return to elections
Kuwait Times ‘Parliament big enough to include Kuwaitis of all sects’ KUWAIT: Former MP Rakan Al-Nisef speaks during a symposium held at his campaign headquarters Monday night. — Photos by Joseph...
View Article617 complaints against police
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Kuwaitis and expatriates lodged 617 complaints against police officers this year as of the end of October, compared to 750 filed last year, a senior Interior Ministry official...
View ArticleEgyptians’ remittances
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Egyptians in Kuwait transferred nearly 500 million Egyptian pounds during the past few days, with an average of 100 million pounds a day through the country’s three biggest money...
View ArticleNumber of Indian nationals in Kuwait reaches 921,666
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: The number of Indian nationals in Kuwait has reached 921,666 as of October 11, 2016, according to Indian embassy yesterday. The embassy, quoting data released from the general...
View Article8-hour ban on travelers return overruled
Kuwait Times KUWAIT: Instructions were made yesterday to halt a previous decision banning departing passengers through land borders from returning to Kuwait within eight hours of departure. Security...
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