Philippines’ Ambassador to Kuwait has denied a report that Manila is officially banning Filipino domestic workers from deployment in the country. “The last update I received from the team that visited Kuwait last week was that the committee in the House of Representatives will review the Migrant Workers Act,” Shulan Primavera told Kuwait Times....
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Qatar’s Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will harness the power of music into its healthcare services with the rehabilitation department set to introduce special music therapy programmes for its patients, local media reported. “We are looking to provide professional music therapy in the near future, as part of a comprehensive set of allied health services...
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King Hamad Bin Eisa Al Khalifa on Sunday reiterated Bahrain’s commitment to a strong and united Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). “We stress that the Kingdom of Bahrain will exert all its efforts to develop and reinforce the outstanding fraternal relations between the GCC countries,” King Hamad said.
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Qatar Charity (QC) has distributed aid items to thousands of people living in flood-struck Sindh Province of Pakistan. Around 65,000 families in the worst-hit areas of Badin, Tand and Muhammed Khan benefitted from the distribution, which included food, tents, mosquito nets, water tanks and mobile toilets, Qatari media reported on Sunday.
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A project that seeks to enhance awareness about birds has been launched in Qatar by environment activists. Targeting mainly students and young generations, “My Country’s Bird” by the Friends of Environment Centre (FEC) is mainly about environmental awareness and teaching the new generation in Qatar about the importance of birds, Dr Elsadiq A Bashir,...
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First there was Lateefa, a financial expert. Five years later, Sawsan, a sports specialist joined her, two weeks ahead of Ebtisam, an engineer and Somayya, a doctor. Today, they form the golden quartet that will take the voices, and aspirations, of women into the lower chamber of the bicameral parliament. As the parliament reconvenes...
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Bahrain has reiterated its pledge to uphold the labour, security and safety rights of all communities living in the country, the foreign minister has said. “The kingdom is keen on the rights of all residents, both citizens and expatriates,” Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa said. “Bahrain will do its utmost to ease the...
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Lina Ben Mhenni, the Tunisian blogger who was nominated for the Nobel Prize, and Wael Ghonim, the Egyptian blogger, have won the International Columnists Award presented by the Spanish daily El Mundo. “Ben Mehnni and Ghonim represent the importance that free journalism and the rise of new technologies have had on the ‘Arab spring’,”...
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Bahrain’s interior ministry has launched an investigation into the death of a Bahraini teenager following conflicting reports about how he died.
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Burgan Bank has reported a Kuwaiti lawmaker to the public prosecution on suspicion his bank account had been unusually expanded, a local daily said. According to Al Jareeda, the bank alerted the authorities after it noticed that unusual amounts were deposited into the account of the MP from the Fifth Constituency.
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