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Kuwaits Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received the second dose of coronavirus vaccine at the center on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported.Kuwa

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s cabinet tendered their resignation on Tuesday only a month after the government was formed amid arguments with parliament.Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali...

Announcement comes a day after the deputy prime minister presented resignation of cabinet amid political turmoil.

The standoff between the government and parliament less than a month after the cabinet was appointed poses the first big challenge to Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed al-Sabah, who assumed power in September

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 13: The security authorities have arrested two young Kuwaitis for stabbing the father of an unidentified young woman while they were jogging, reports Al-Rai daily. The daily added, this happened when the duo started harassing the young woman and when the father tried to prevent them

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MP eyes tax on remittances MP Osama Al-Shaheen affirmed that billions of dinars exiting the local economy annually, and has reached nearly KD21 billion according to estimates of the last five years, and mentioned that imposing fees on remittances at a rate of 2.5 percent will possibly save the state at least KD100 million annually. Al-Shaheen said, in a press statement, that MPs Dr. Hamad Al-Matar, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Saqabi, Khaled Al-Otaibi, and Shuaib Al-Muwaisari, proposed the bill to impose f...

Messenger KUWAIT CITY, Jan 12: The Secretariat General of the National Assembly has categorically denied the rumor that the Assembly pays an expatriate consultant a salary of KD10,000 with other privileges such as a house near the sea and a car. According to the Secretariat General, the consultant’s salary is much lower than the rumored amount and he was not granted a house or a car. It affirmed the concerned authorities are monitoring the salaries of employees at the Assembly, adding that t...

Threats, Victims or Allies? Migrant Communities in Kuwaits COVID19 Response January 12, 2021 Share This article is part of the series on “COVID-19 in the Middle East and Asia: Impacts and Responses”. Read more ... Sometime in mid-March 2020, just as the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic gained momentum across the world, a rather unusual group of individuals in Kuwait logged on to a Zoom call to coordinate their response to what would most certainly be devastating and uncertain time...

‘2.5 percent regardless of currency’ KUWAIT CITY, Jan 11: MPs Osama Al-Shaheen, Hamad Al-Matar, Abdulaziz Al-Saqaabi, Shuaib Al- Muwaizri and Khalid Al-Otaibi have submitted a bill on taxing remittances. Al-Shaheen disclosed the bill aims to enhance the public budget, contribute to ongoing ef