Qatar’s education authorities have warned schools against relaxing students’ attendance rules. Allowing students to break the regulations about not attending classes amounts to wasting valuable time and education resources and instilling in them negative traditions that include laziness, reliance on others, mismanagement of time and lack of readiness to learn and move forward, the...
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A group of single doctors and architects have urged for an explanation on a decree that banned bachelors from living in residential areas in Doha. “We are aware of the municipal decisions to relocate single company workers to new areas outside the residential neighbourhoods, but we do not know whether the ban applies to...
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Bahrain will host a new Arabic news station and a leading Arab media network after it beat Beirut and major Gulf cities in the tough competition for the channel’s headquarters. “The IAA is signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Al Arab News channel, the newest channel in Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal’s successful media empire,” said...
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A 5,000 dinar (Dh64,206) reward will be given to anyone who reports vote-buying cases as parliament elections heat up, Kuwait Transparency Society has said. “We have been informed that anyone who reports the crime of buying votes will be offered KD5,000,” according to the society, which is tasked with monitoring the parliamentary elections in Kuwait.
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The Slovenian ambassador to Egypt has denied reports that he had been harmed in Cairo’s Shubra district, saying that the incident had been exaggerated. Egyptian media on Sunday reported that Robert Kokalj, 43, and his driver were taking pictures of the poor overcrowded district and street children when they were assaulted by hundreds of...
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Bahrain has agreed on deals with international audio-visual companies to boost local skills and enhance the media landscape. Shaikh Fawaz Bin Mohammad Al Khalifa, the president of the Information Affairs Authority (IAA), on Monday said that the contracts with major international media organizations have been completed and that they would “contribute to training and...
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“If Al Nahda remains true to its pledge, we will have an exceptionally wonderful year in 2012,” Kamal Dhib said as he pointed to the large TV screen showing debates at the Tunisian constitutional assembly over the government’s action plan for next year. According to the political analyst, Tunisia is facing a watershed moment...
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Kuwait’s Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah on Tuesday accorded the honourary title of “His Highness” to Prime Minister Shaikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah. Kuwait News Agency (Kuna) said that the Emiri decree that changes the title from His Excellency to His Highness was with immediate effect.
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Thirty more Kuwaitis have joined the growing list of candidates for the parliament elections to be held on February 2. However, none of them was a woman, keeping the number of women who have signed up to covet seats in the 50-member parliament to 13 out of a total of 252 hopefuls.
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A group of young students surprised shoppers at one of Kuwait’s most frequented malls by shouting anti-smoking slogans and carrying posters asking smokers to stub out their cigarettes. The stunt, unprecedented in Kuwait where smoking is a major issue, was meant to embarrass those who flouted the law that bans smoking in malls and...
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