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Guest Workers Trafficked to Kuwait (PR News Wire )

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:22:00 GMT

Work in U.S. Military Base under Slave like Conditions NEW YORK, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the National Labor Committee is releasing a new report "Guest Workers Trafficked to Kuwait, Stripped of their Passports and Forced to Work Seven Days a Week at a U.S. Military Base, while Cheated of half their Wages." Full report: Hundreds of thousands of foreign guest workers --...

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Kuwait: The Ugliest House Ever (Global Voices Online)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:16:16 GMT

Kuwaiti blogger Z District announced that he has found the ugliest house in Kuwait - and posts pictures to prove it.

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Kuwait: Why People Neglect Each Other? (Global Voices Online)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:23:42 GMT

Fajr Al Layaly from Kuwait wonders why people neglect each other. “It is an amazing thing what neglect does to people..You know when you see those couples or in families you see people being nasty to one another. I always used to wonder why'” she writes.

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Kuwait to invest $1.3bn in power generation (ziomal.biz)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:08:37 GMT

Kuwait: Kuwait plans to install $1.3bn worth of power-generation equipment in a bid to raise output by 7.9% as energy demand soars, reported Bloomberg. The country is building four new gas and steam turbines, one generator and three distillers at the Shuaiba North power station, said Mohammed Boshehri, a planning director at the Ministry of Electricity and Water. The new power capacity...

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Kuwait plans to develop media city (Big News Network.com)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:00:01 GMT

Dubai, Aug 21 (IANS) Kuwait is planning to develop a media city as part of its five-year 50-billion Kuwaiti dinars ($186.6 billion) overall development plan.

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Kuwait bans 'God Tussi Great Ho' (Daily News Analysis)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:44:00 GMT

Following UAE banning Salman-Amitabh starrer Bollywood movie 'God Tussi Great Ho', another Gulf country Kuwait has decided to stop its screening as well.

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Kuwait extends date for bids on contract (ziomal.biz)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:21:01 GMT

Kuwait: Kuwait is extending the date to close bids for a contract to build a 2,000-megawatt power station in Subbiya to Oct. 7 from Aug. 17 after foreign companies requested more time, Khalid al-Wasmi, assistant undersecretary at the Ministry of Electricity and Water told Bloomberg. The project will cost about $2.6bn. [AMEInfo.com]

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Zain to raise $4.5 billion for its future expansion plans (Kuwait) (Wireless Federation)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:18:21 GMT

Mobile Telecommunications Company, Zain is planning to raise $4.5 billion through a rights issue to fund its expansion plans. Application forms and prospectus of the capital increase will be available at all National Bank of Kuwait’s (NBK) branches. As of March 10, every Zain shareholder will be eligible to subscribe to shares equivalent to 75 [...]

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Kuwait Telecom to launch IPO (ziomal.biz)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:54:51 GMT

Kuwait: Kuwait Telecommunications Co is seeking to raise $93m in an initial public offering next week, reported Bloomberg. The company, in which Saudi Telecom Co. will hold a 26% stake, is selling 50% of its capital in the IPO which closes Sept. 18. Fuad al-Hajeri, a member of the company's founding committee, said he expects up to 700,000 Kuwaitis to buy shares in the company....

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All in One Day (Here There and Everywhere)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:21:00 GMT

Life is funny, in Kuwait, you are just getting up, brushing your teeth, getting ready to head for work, knowing tonight is date night and tomorrow you sleep in. I’m in my jammies, lying in bed with my computer, watching old Law and Order’s on TNT (sometimes the Olympics just get boring) and winding down, [...]

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Khaldiya Co-op gets the Alshaya touch (ziomal.biz)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:58:08 GMT

Kuwait: With top international fashion and beauty brands operated by M.H. Alshaya Co. opening stores in the newly renovated Khaldiya Co-op, Kuwait's style-conscious have a new shopping destination. [AMEInfo.com]

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Fitzgerald: Why is the American government funding Pakistan? (Doc's Talk)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:40:00 GMT

Why is the American government funding Pakistan? Why are our true-blue allies, Saudi Arabia and those sheikdoms (the U.A.E., Kuwait, Qatar, et al.), who are dripping in gold, not paying everything they can to keep Pakistan free from "extremism" by relieving its "poverty"? Why is this apparently, always and everywhere, in Pakistan, in Egypt, in Jordan, and among the Gazan Arabs and the "West...

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Saudi Arabia To Surround Self With A 6,000 Km Barrier (Truemors)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:27:19 GMT

A few weeks ago, the Saudi government decided to triple the length of its border security barrier from approximately 2,000 km ( Iraq and Yemen ) to about 6,000 km to additionally cover Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Oman and Gulf and Red Sea coasts. HSRC forecasts that this first stage (radar virtual barrier) will [...]

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The Real World Order (FreeThoughtManifesto)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:37:00 GMT

By By George Friedman August 18, 2008 1835 GMT Courtesy Of StartFor's Intelligence Report On Sept. 11, 1990, U.S. President George H. W. Bush addressed Congress. He spoke in the wake of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe, the weakening of the Soviet Union, and the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein. He argued that a New World Order was emerging: “A hundred generations have searched for...

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Nepalese Nabbed (The J-Walk Blog)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:42:00 GMT

Kuwait crime news: Nepalese held for alcohol . Police have arrested three Nepalese for consuming alcohol, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily. According to a security source the drunkards were arrested by a police patrol on a road in Mina Abdullah. Police have also reportedly seized a bottle of locally manufactured booze from the drunkards. Let that be a lesson. Comments | Posted in General

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Kuwait Telecom sale begins on 22 August (Kuwait) (Wireless Federation)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:41:18 GMT

STC’s subsidiary in Kuwait is selling off a 25% stake worth KWD25 million (USD93 million). The sale, reportedly, will begin on 22nd August, will come as a part of the deal agreed when STC was awarded Kuwait’s third national GSM licence in November 2007. Kuwait Telecom, will also a 25% interest to government-backed institutions including the Kuwait [...]

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Somalia: Gov Makes Oil Deal With KEC And Medco Energi International (All Africa)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:45:25 GMT

The government of Somalia signed a shareholders agreement with Kuwait Energy Company (KEC) and Indonesia"s Medco Energi International Tbk on Tuesday to govern the activities at the Somalia Petroleum Corporation.

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Safat Down? (Here There and Everywhere)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:20:05 GMT

I was just checking the Kuwait Blogs and I got a message that Safat is corrupted. Is anyone else getting the same view? We take their service for granted, don’t we, these guys who volunteer their own time to keep Safat running. We are so lucky to have an aggregator in Kuwait so comprehensive and reliable. [...]

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Kuwait Presents Result of Asia Trip (News from TheMediaLine.org.)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:30:00 GMT

Kuwait Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Muhammad Al-Ahmad A-'Sabah on Monday briefed the Kuwaiti cabinet on the result of his recent eight-nation trip to Asia, the Kuwait Times reported. According to the paper, deals worth $27 billion were signed. The prime minister, together with a large delegation of businessmen from the oil rich kingdom in the Gulf, visited Japan, South Korea,...

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Iraq helicopter crash, bombings reported (News: Moldova.org: Politics)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:08:00 GMT

Witnesses say a U.S. military helicopter has crashed in a village north of Baghdad.Military personnel have cordoned off the the town of Shuwaikh in Salahdin province, making further verification or information about the chopper accident impossible, reported the Kuwait News Agency Monday.A spokesman for the Multinational Forces in Iraq, Abdul Latif al-Rayyan, reached by telephone, told KUNA he...

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