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The event, which was sponsored by RAM and held at the Four Seasons Hotel Kuwait at Burj Alshaya, gathered together Kuwait’s finest business leaders, entrepreneurs and thought-leaders and was a chance to recognise their achievements throughout the year.

Action Hotels’ Sheikh Mubarak leads winners at Arabian Business Kuwait Awards

by Staff writerMon 29 Apr 2019Thu 7 Oct 2021

Arabian Business Kuwait Awards 2019 event honours the country’s finest business leaders, entrepreneurs and thought-leaders

The ministry said all domestic and wild live birds, ornamental birds, chicks, hatching and table eggs, poultry meat, and their non-heat-treated by-products and waste are banned from being imported from Kuwait.

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UAE bans import of live birds from Kuwait

by Staff writerFri 8 Feb 2019Wed 6 Oct 2021

Thermally-treated poultry products such as meat and eggs have been cleared for import from Kuwait

The goal of the government’s Civil Service Commission (CSC) is to have 100 percent of the workforce in administrative, media, PR, IT, development and statistics jobs be made up of citizens, as well as 95 percent in scientific, financial, economic and commercial jobs and 80 percent in craft jobs

GCC nationalisation strategy

Kuwait aims for 100% nationals employed in public sector

by Bernd Debusmann JrWed 24 Oct 2018Wed 6 Oct 2021

Kuwait is increasingly seeking to remove expatriates from public sector posts and replace them with Kuwaiti nationals

Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge

Opinion: Investing for the future – today

by Staff writerTue 23 Oct 2018Sun 14 Nov 2021

The UAE is projected to require 81,500 seats in the Pre-K segment by 2020

Sondos Alqattan, known for her online make-up tutorials, said the backlash was “unjustified” and did not require an apology.

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Christian Dior invites Kuwaiti blogger Sondos Alqattan to Paris SS19 show

by Staff writerMon 15 Oct 2018Wed 6 Oct 2021

Sondos Alqattan refused to apologise for comments criticising Kuwait’s new laws that granted Filipino domestic workers in the Gulf state one day off per week

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Kuwaiti couple handed jail sentence for Sri Lankan airport attack

by AFPSat 15 Sep 2018Thu 7 Oct 2021

Kuwaiti couple were arrested trying to smuggle in a Burmese Mastiff into the country in July without following quarantine procedures

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Kuwaiti employers not following rules governing domestic help – report

by Staff Writer Tue 14 Aug 2018Thu 7 Oct 2021

A survey from the Kuwait Times found that many employers are ignoring legislation governing the rights of Filipino domestic workers in the Gulf country

A number of brands have cut ties with Qattan in the wake of widespread public backlash concerning a July 10 video in which she criticised Kuwaiti rules that give Filipina domestic workers one day off a week and forbids employers from retaining their passports. (ITP Publishing)

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Criticism of me is attack on Kuwait and Hijab, says Sondos Al Qattan

by Staff Writer Wed 25 Jul 2018Thu 7 Oct 2021

Kuwaiti beauty influencer has vowed to have her followers boycott brands that sever ties with her

Arabian Business

Kuwait companies honoured at Arabian Business Achievement Awards

by Staff Writer Tue 8 May 2018Thu 7 Oct 2021

Kuwait’s leading entrepreneurs and CEOs triumph at Arabian Business Achievement Awards

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Bus collision kills 15 oil workers in Kuwait

by Staff Writer Sun 1 Apr 2018Thu 7 Oct 2021

Four other workers were hospitalised, some in critical condition

Eva 3rd L mother of Filipina worker Joanna Demafelis whose body was found inside a freezer in Kuwait cries in front of the wooden casket containing her daughters body shortly after its arrival from Manila at Iloilo International Airport in Iloilo province central Philippines on February 17 2018. The body of Filipina worker Joanna Demafelis

Expats

Call for justice as Filipina’s body returns home from Kuwait

by Staff Writer Sat 17 Feb 2018Thu 7 Oct 2021

Labour Secretary Silvestre Bello said ‘working groups’ from both countries were discussing forging a memorandum for protecting the rights of Filipinos in Kuwait

Lulu & Najla Al Mishari, Fashion winners at the Arab Women Awards 2017.
Image: Grace Guino /ITP Images .

Arab Woman Awards

Dr Kefaya Abdulmalek named most inspirational Arab woman

by Staff Writer Tue 31 Oct 2017Thu 7 Oct 2021

Deputy Foreign Minister HE Reem Al Khaled wins Government award, while Dr Kefaya Abdulmalek named Inspirational Woman of the Year