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Commemorative Stamps of Kuwait
Tuesday, 14 Apr, 2009 – 14:27 | One Comment
Commemorative Stamps of Kuwait

Check this gallery for some of the commemorative stamps of Kuwait. Some interesting stamps are the first one which was valued in Indian Paisa, then there is a round stamp too, and the stamps released after Liberation of Kuwait in 1991.

Libyan leader Gadhafi blasts Saudi king as “British product and American ally.”
Monday, 30 Mar, 2009 – 17:40 | One Comment
Libyan leader Gadhafi blasts Saudi king as “British product and American ally.”

Libyan leader Moamer Gadhafi today blasted Saudi king as “British product and American ally”, during the Arab Summit in Qatar. He also called hiself as “Dean of all Arabs”, and then let out a rhetoric of statements against the Saudi king. Then he proceeded to say “I am an international leader, the dean of the [...]

President Obama speaks to Iranians on Nowruz: US opens to diplomacy
Friday, 20 Mar, 2009 – 15:46 | One Comment
President Obama speaks to Iranians on Nowruz: US opens to diplomacy

Watch the video of President Obama speaking to the Iranian population and the leadership on the occasion of Nowruz, expressing solidarity and warm wishes. Finally it seems that US is now thawing its relations with Iran after all the rhetoric of the past administration. Now lets see how Iranians respond to this..

Wish Obama with a newspaper ad on his Presidency
Saturday, 17 Jan, 2009 – 12:13 | No Comment
Wish Obama with a newspaper ad on his Presidency

Washington Post is offering you a chance to be part of history [paid history], by placing an ad in their print edition for January 20th, 2009, in congratulating Obama as he takes over as the President of the US. The ad can be customized with your personal message and a preset of images [provided by [...]

Israeli soldiers admit “Purification” agenda in Gaza
Monday, 12 Jan, 2009 – 21:32 | 8 Comments
Israeli soldiers admit “Purification” agenda in Gaza

So the holocaust survivors progeny considers their mission of Gaza massacre is nothing more than “purification”. Well Nazi’s called it ethnic cleansing, so I guess Israelis are heeding to Nazi principals in Gaza now. This video was banned by the Israeli establishment, but released anyways by an Israeli channel.

Download new International call rates list from Kuwait: MOC reduces tariff by 50%
Tuesday, 6 Jan, 2009 – 11:31 | 2 Comments
Download new International call rates list from Kuwait: MOC reduces tariff by 50%

As I had mentioned previously that MOC Kuwait was planning new call rates for International destinations from Kuwait. Here is the updated list of new call rates. And yes rates have been slashed by upto 50% for many countries.
Download International call rates list [CLICK HERE] PDF version

Shameful: Israel Army video shows how they bomb a Mosque in Gaza
Thursday, 1 Jan, 2009 – 11:27 | 2 Comments
Shameful: Israel Army video shows how they bomb a Mosque in Gaza

Israels’ Army have launched a channel on YouTube where they are uploading videos from bombing aircrafts over Gaza. In the above video they allege that a mosque in Gaza has hidden missiles, and then they go about bombing the Mosque.
I think Arab neighbours are sitting too quite and would rather watch from distance how humanity [...]

Dubai cancels all New Year celebrations in solidarity with Palestinians
Tuesday, 30 Dec, 2008 – 22:55 | No Comment
Dubai cancels all New Year celebrations in solidarity with Palestinians

Finally some encouraging step from the neighbors of Palestine…the Arabs
His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has ordered the cancellation of all New Year celebrations in Dubai on Wednesday as an act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
In support of the Palestinians in [...]

ALERT: Melamine found in Nesvita [Nestle milk powder] in Saudi
Wednesday, 3 Dec, 2008 – 12:17 | 2 Comments
ALERT: Melamine found in Nesvita [Nestle milk powder] in Saudi

Saudi authorities have found high amounts of melamine in one of the batches of Nesvita [Nestle milk powder]. Melamine is considered very dangerous chemical composition not suitable for consumption. Shoppers should be vary of this.
They named the product as the 400-gramme Nesvita pro-Bones and said the indicated batch was produced on May 6, 2008 by [...]

Breaking News: H.H. the Amir of Kuwait accepts the resignation of Kuwait government
Monday, 1 Dec, 2008 – 15:47 | No Comment
Breaking News: H.H. the Amir of Kuwait accepts the resignation of Kuwait government

His Highness the Amir of Kuwait has accepted the resignation of the Kuwait government. Various blogs/forums and media outlets are reporting. H.H. the Amir of Kuwait has appointed former prime minister his nephew H.E. Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as the new prime minister.
More Information [LINK] [arabic]
More information [LINK] [translated english]

Hike in fees for Visit & Residency visas in Kuwait
Monday, 1 Dec, 2008 – 10:19 | No Comment
Hike in fees for Visit & Residency visas in Kuwait

Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior is planning to hike the fee for visit visas in Kuwait. As per the proposal, the fee for visit visa might hit KD 15 from the current KD 3. The impact of this on Business visa is unknown so far.
There is also a plan to hike the fee for resident visa [...]

GM, Chrysler and Ford destined to doom?!
Thursday, 20 Nov, 2008 – 9:49 | No Comment
GM, Chrysler and Ford destined to doom?!

Seems the economic pressure is on for the big 3 of US auto-industry GM, Chrysler and Ford. Talks are rampant of imminent bankruptcy. Wonder where that would lead to in the Kuwait auto-market? There is even talk of Chinese auto-industry plans to buy in some of these auto-giants. I guess its best advisable to wait [...]

Dubai leads Gulf markets fallout in economic slump
Sunday, 16 Nov, 2008 – 12:07 | No Comment
Dubai leads Gulf markets fallout in economic slump

With recent unprecedented move in Kuwait of closing the stock exchange for one week following the huge losses investors were making due to economic downturn, the picture is getting gloomier in the Persian Gulf.
Persian Gulf was considered untouchable due to its economical stronghold on the black gold ‘Oil’. But since now the oil prices have [...]

Telephone rates to be slashed 50% for select countries from Kuwait
Sunday, 16 Nov, 2008 – 10:43 | One Comment
Telephone rates to be slashed 50% for select countries from Kuwait

Somewhere a wake-up call has been answered, as MOC is planning to slash the Interenational calling rates by upto 50%. The call rates to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are being cut by 50 percent and they will cost 150 fils per minute while those to Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Philippines are being [...]