An African expatriate was arrested from his house in Khaitan area for duping people by selling them magic charms at a cost of KD 200 each, reports Al-Shahed daily.
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Kuwaiti won 8,750,000 Kuwaiti Dinar
A Kuwaiti family has won the lawsuit which was filed in London against the Credit Suisse Group AG after the family lost worth $29 million of investments with the bank during the 2008 financial crisis. Mahmoud Haji Haider Abdullah and his sons, Maytham, Mahdi, and Mansour, had lost $29 million at the end of October 2008, Judge Andrew Baker said Monday, without defining how much money they can recover.
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Asian arrested for 140000 KD
Personnel from the Criminal Investigations Department have arrested a Pakistani for swindling four Kuwaitis by convincing them he has business contracts with the American forces in Kuwait and asked them to invest in his business, reports Al-Anba daily.
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Automatic renewal of residence permit for expatriates
Director-General of the General Department of Residence Affairs, Major-General Talal Ma’arafi said the department is considering automatic renewal of residence permit for expatriates, reports Al-Rai daily.
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Term ‘domestic workers’ instead of calling them ‘housemaids.’
Kuwait Society for Human Rights is baffled by the inhumane terms being used to refer to expatriates in the country, such as ‘servants’ and ‘housemaids;’ indicating these are derogatory terms and the international human rights organizations uses the term ‘domestic workers’ instead of calling them ‘housemaids.’
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Campaign to monitor restaurants and garages
Maintenance Department at the Ministry of Public Works in coordination with Ministry of Interior is all set to conduct a campaign to monitor irregularities at the restaurants and garages, as well as concrete mixers discarding waste into manholes to damage the rainwater drainage, reports Al-Rai daily.
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30 KD Fine and One month jail
The Traffic Court has sentenced a 21-year-old Kuwaiti to one month in prison for reckless driving and fined him 30 dinars for driving the car with tinted glass, and failing to renew the car insurance, reports Al-Anba daily.
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Inspection of houses in Khaitan by next week
Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and State Minister for Municipality Affairs Mohammad Al-Jabri has confirmed formation of a committee tasked to inspect houses in Block 10, Khaitan to determine their lifespan in preparation for their appraisal and transformation into commercial residential units, reports Al-Anba daily.
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Swine flu virus cases found in Kuwait
A number of cases of swine flu virus cases have been reported from the Al-Sabah, Mubarak Al-Kabir and Farwaniya hospitals, reports Al-Anba daily quoting knowledgeable sources.
