UBS hires high-profile lawyer in Kuwaiti sheikh case
Source: Zawya Regional
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-23 05:07:40 -0700 | business-news
Switzerland's UBS AG (UBS) has hired Charles Falconer, a high-profile U.K. lawyer, to defend the bank in a Dubai court case brought by a member of Kuwait's royal family, according to two people familiar with the matter. Sheikh Meshal Jarah...
Kuwait: All views on unified media law 'welcome'
Source: Zawya Regional
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-22 23:07:00 -0700 | entertainment-news
Information Minister and State Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al- Sabah has stated that all views on the "unified media" law are welcome as part of efforts to support the information mission. In response to rumours...
Kuwait: Quick solution to many issues - Praise for new companies law
Source: Zawya Regional
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-22 23:06:51 -0700 | business-news
Now, companies need to make some changes in their status so as to comply with the modified law. For instance, the new law has regulated not only the transfer of promissory notes into shares but also electronic underwriting, thereby legalizing...
Kuwait court bails 'insult' ex-MP
Source: BBC
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-22 13:44:23 -0700 | political-news
Kuwait court bails an ex-MP guilty of insulting emir Mussallam al-Barrak (right) had refused to give himself up to authorities A prominent Kuwaiti opposition leader has been granted bail pending appeal against a five-year jail sentence for insulting the emir....
Kuwait ex-MP freed to fight emir insult sentence
Source: Boston.com
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-22 14:39:00 -0700 | political-news
A defense lawyer in Kuwait says a former parliament member was granted bail and will remain free while fighting a five-year sentence for a speech considered insulting to the Gulf nation's emir. Monday's court decision defuses a brewing political crisis...
VIDEO: Secrets of a Kuwaiti football tycoon
Source: BBC
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-21 10:41:13 -0700 | sports-news
Secrets of a Kuwaiti football tycoon 21 April 2013 Last updated at 12:52 ET Gulf investors have bought into some of Europe's biggest football clubs, from Manchester City to Paris Saint-Germain, Kuwait's Fawaz Al Hasawi set his sights lower when...
Jihad: A Study in Perpetual War Against the West
Source: Canadian Free Press
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-21 04:09:04 -0700 | allnews
Were the Boston Bombers Trying to Help Create an International Caliphate?...The recent Boston pressure cooker bombing was committed by two Muslim believers, proving Obama has done nothing to permanently halt the threat of Muslim terrorism. It has been repeatedly stated...
Jihad: A Study in Perpetual War Against the West
Source: Canadian Free Press
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-21 04:09:04 -0700 | allnews
Were the Boston Bombers Trying to Help Create an International Caliphate?...The recent Boston pressure cooker bombing was committed by two Muslim believers, proving Obama has done nothing to permanently halt the threat of Muslim terrorism. It has been repeatedly stated...
Kuwait opposition politician slams 'bullying'
Source: Al Jazeera
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-21 01:01:59 -0700 | political-news
35 Mossallam al-Barrak, Kuwait's a prominent leader of the opposition, has made his first public appearance since a court sentenced him to five years in jail for insulting the emir. Special forces stormed the family home belonging to Barrak, a former member of parliament, on...
The Middle East's kings of cowardice
Source: War In Context
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-19 19:12:40 -0700 | disasters-news
The escalation against Youssef was rooted in the intense polarization of local Egyptian politics and the prickly, insecure nature of the Muslim Brotherhood-led government. The move badly backfired on the Egyptian government: It inspired widespread global contempt for Morsy, global...
Jailed Bin Laden Relative Denied Additional Phone Calls
Source: The New York Times
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-19 16:11:16 -0700 | political-news
April 19, 2013 Many inmates treasure their ability to call family members, and that appears to be no different for Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a prisoner in Manhattan who is also a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden , a letter from...
Expat parents feel the pinch of rising cost of living in Kuwait
Source: Zawya Political
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-19 04:25:21 -0700 | political-news
A five-member family living in Kuwait, whose total income is less than KD 1,000, is considered as living under the poverty line, according to the United Nations criteria based on the average per capita income of an individual living in...
Govt plans to grant each Kuwaiti family with 5,000 sq mts of land
Source: Zawya Political
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-19 03:01:23 -0700 | political-news
April 18 MP Abdulhameed Dashti revealed that the government is planning to grant each Kuwaiti family with 5,000 square meters of land near the northwestern borders of the country to construct rest houses or even use them for agricultural purposes,...
DeBrand opens shop in Kuwait
Source: The Journal Gazette
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-19 00:21:36 -0700 | business-news
Rashed Al-Shaya held a lavish grand opening this month at the Avenues Mall in Kuwait that features high-end retailers such as Tiffany & Co., Chanel, Prada, Gucci and Armani, according to a written statement Thursday from DeBrand. Owners and couple...
Muzzle on dissent in Gulf faces backlash in Kuwait
Source: SF Gate
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | updated 2013-04-18 23:49:52 -0700 | political-news
Outside a palm-shaded villa in suburban Kuwait City, government security forces are taunted and defied each night by supporters of a former lawmaker ordered to prison for insulting the emir of this tiny nation. It's a local showdown, but the...
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