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  • Kuwait sets minimum wage for domestic staff

    KUWAIT, 2016/08/31 Kuwait has set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian domestic staff, the initial country in the Gulf to do so, local media reported on Thursday. A decree issued by Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Sabah set the minimum wage at 60 dinars ($200) a month and as well granted domestic staff a raft of other rights, Al-Anbaa newspaper reported.
  • Kuwait recalls ambassador from Iran over Saudi row

    IRAN, 2016/01/08 Kuwait became Tuesday the new Gulf Arab national to recall its ambassador from Iran to turmoil attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic republic. It did not, however, expel Tehran's ambassador or downgrade the level of diplomatic relationship with Iran. The announcement comes next Sunni-led Saudi Arabia and Bahrain severed ties with predominantly Shiite Iran this week.UAE has recalled its ambassador, downgraded ties with the Islamic republic to protest attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions.
  • Tackling unemployment also requires educational reform, according to Shaikh Mohammad.

    KUWAIT, 2015/11/24 The Arab region is plagued by a lack of job opportunities, knowledge and real notions of democracy, Shaikh Mohammad Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, a member of the UN high-level advisory committee, has said. Delivering a lecture that focused on challenges facing Arab youth and held as part of the 14th Middle East business conference at a british university on Friday, Shaikh Mohammad, a former foreign minister in Kuwait, said that according to figures from the World Bank, around 54 % of youth in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) were unemployed. The picture becomes gloomier with the fact that three out of four women in the region were as well unemployed, he added. Shaikh Mohammad stressed that Arab governments were presently forced to create 100 million jobs until 2020 in order to meet the alarming unemployment numbers.
  • Arab Youth Survey Report 2015

    BAHRAIN, 2015/04/25 Confidence part Arab youth that the Arab Spring would bring positive change across the region is declining and as a result they are uncertain whether democracy could ever work in the Middle East. This is the headline finding of the 7th Annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey released today. - Arab youth see the rise of ISIS as the biggest obstacle facing the region - Youth are keen to start their own business as concerns about unemployment continue - The UAE remains the majority popular country to live in and emulate and Saudi Arabia is viewed as the region’s biggest ally - A lot of view the Arabic language as central to their identity but believe it is losing its price to English
  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
  • US imposes sanctions on two Ajmis, accusing them of raising money for Al-Nusra front.

    KUWAIT, 2014/08/07 Kuwait said Thursday it was committed to fighting terrorism and its funding next the United States sanctioned three Kuwaitis accused of providing money, fighters and weapons to extremist groups. "Kuwait is committed to fighting terrorism and its funding," its ambassador to Washington Sheikh Salem Abdullah al-Jaber Al-Sabah said. "Kuwait has passed legislation to fight terror and its financing and has established the executive tools to implement it," the ambassador told the official KUNA news agency.