Bahrain’s government has asked its ministers and senior officials to limit their overseas travel and to reduce the size of traveling delegations. “Prime Minister Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa has directed that the participation of ministers and senior officials in events abroad should be confined to highly significant occasions,” Shaikh Ahmad Bin Atiyatallah...
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A planned sit-in by Kuwait’s Teachers’ Society was postponed following a meeting with the prime minister. The 25-minute protest was scheduled to be staged on October 5 to protest against the education minister’s decision to lengthen the school day by 25 to 35 minutes. However, the society said that it would put off the...
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Kuwait will scrap the controversial sponsorship system in February, the social affairs and labour minister has said. “We will eliminate the sponsorship system in February to coincide with the launch of the labour affairs authority,” Mohammad Al Afassi said. “This will be our gift to expatriates on the occasion of Liberation Day,” he said,...
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Qatar has included traffic awareness programmes in its school curriculum to boost safety, a senior official of the Traffic Department has said. “The department is working with the Supreme Education Council (SEC) to implement programmes and activities in the schools to raise awareness among students about traffic safety and traffic rules,” Mubarak Al Nuaimi,...
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