Finally Arab Times website gets a facelift…looks much better now
Arab Times [LINK]

Arab Times today front-paged [print and online] a story about Burundanga drug being used in Kuwait over laced business cards. Seems they didnt cross check Google before publishing their stories of women being offered burundanga laced cards.
Strangely the first story of a woman getting laced card at a petrol station is a hoax email on [...]

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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]

Great news for battered women who are victims of abuse at the hands of their husbands and/or boyfriends… you have the right to return the favor with interest.
According to Sheikh Abdel Hamid Al-Atrash, who heads Al-Azhar University’s committee for fatwas or religious rulings, this declaration comes after similar rulings by religious leaders in Saudi Arabia [...]

Now this is getting more interesting …apparently unknown sources are claiming that atleast 4 banks in Kuwait are looking for merger(s). Now who could these banks be? Well we have limited number of banks only in Kuwait so to say 9 banks only. So if 4 are requesting mergers we are looking at half of [...]

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Read this news article in Arab Times about a drug peddler caught with 10 kilos of cocaine. The stash has been priced at KD 1,500! Well as per US Government controlled substance site, the street value of 10 kilos of cocaine would be around US$ 200,000 or KD 53,000. And if the [...]

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I am sure there are better ways [and words] to put up a blasting headline. This puts the person who spoke on this subject in a bad light.
Full article [LINK]

Seems they have borrowed the layout from now defunct Daily Star Kuwait website.
Al-Watan Daily English website [LINK]

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Came home today to find the first issue of Al-Watan Daily english edition. Al-Watan dumped Daily Star Kuwait earlier in February after it got slack response from subscribers in Kuwait. First impressions puts Al-Watan Daily in interesting category. Todays edition had business supplement and International Herald Tribune. Overall the paper is somewhat [...]

The moment I saw this snap of Putin on the cover of Time, I knew it would be awarded at some stage, and guess what it did win. Many other brilliant snapshots are covered in the World Press Photo 2008 winners galleries. One of my favs is the Winner of Sports Features series which has [...]

Ok seems I did actually miss this notice out in DSK earlier. Just spoke to the DSK subscriptions department, and they have confirmed DSK is off the press for atleast 10 days then it will be replaced by Al-Watan Daily [english edition].
Subscribers who are active will continue to receive the International Herald Tribune + Al-Watan [...]

Seems Daily Star Kuwait edition has had STOP PRESS literally since last 3-4 days. The paper has disappeared from daily delivery. Only International Herald Tribune is coming through. They did publish something in one of the editions about DSK stopping altogether. Great move…should have done it long time back. Good riddance …DSK sucked big time [...]

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interesting read…;). And yes thats her pic.