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Expat workers to be fined SR10,000 for being absent from work
Riyadh: The Saudi authorities on Wednesday announced stringent measures against expatriates workers for being absent from work. Foreigners who fail to report to work will be fined SR10,000, deported permanently and barred from returning to Saudi Arabia. The General Directorate of Passports announced the penalties, urging citizens and foreigners to comply and report domestic workers
Unemployed expats pose security threat: Committee
KUWAIT: The increasing number of unemployed expatriates poses social and security risks in Kuwait, the parliament’s budgets committee warned in a recent statement. It based its conclusion on official statistics which estimated the number of foreigners in Kuwait without a job at 17,498, compared to 11,670 unemployed Kuwaitis. The number of expatriate manpower in the
KUWAIT | New Online Visa-On-Arrival System Goes Live
The Kuwaiti Minister of the Interior (MOI) announced this month that a new online e-visa service is now up and running. The new service is available to nationals of the five other Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) countries and nationals of an additional 52 countries traveling to Kuwait. Additionally, the
Emirates ID typing service only at upgraded centres
Dubai: There are currently around 314 typing centres in the UAE still authorised to provide the e-form typing service for Emirates ID, after a grace period to meet new standards expired on July 28, the Emirates Identity Authority has said. Only those typing centres who confirm to new standards, enforced since August 1, can continue
UAE’s Masdar says Mauritania solar project 50% completed
Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s future energy company, has announced that it had passed the halfway mark in its project to construct a 16.6MW solar power plant network in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. Masdar broke ground on the project in December and when complete, the network of eight solar power plants will almost double the UAE’s
Oman begins construction on new Rotana Hotel
The Sundus Rotana Hotel is scheduled to launch in February 2017, marking the start of the first phase of the mega Sundus Airport Heights project in Oman. Mohammed al Ardhi, Chairman of Sundus Investments and Selim el Zyr, Vice Chairman of Rotana laid the foundation block of Sundus Rotana Hotel to commemorate the beginning of
August 22, 2016
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Now at No. 2: Dubai climbs notch higher among world’s cities with most-improved liveability
Dubai: Dubai has topped cities in the Middle East and climbed a notch higher at No. 2 among the world’s cities with “most-improved liveability”. In 2015, it was ranked No. 3 under the same category. Dubai’s ranking as the second most-improved city in Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Ranking in 2016 saw its rise in
Free energy within reach of UAE residents
Dubai: When German expatriate Johannes Waimer saw an oil drum in the Bahamas, he never thought that he could re-imagine it and design it into a water heater requiring no power and one that saves tonnes of carbon emissions yearly. Waimer, a solar consultant with Premier Solar Technologies, was sailing in the Caribbean in 1989
August 19, 2016
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DNA checks to cover all citizens, expats, bedoun – Plan to limit foreigners stay in country
KUWAIT CITY, Aug 18: The DNA fingerprinting will cover all people living in Kuwait – citizens, expatriates, bedoun and even people arriving in the country on visit visas, reports Al-Shahed daily. The daily added, the government has imported the machinery needed for the process and it is no longer needed to send the samples abroad.
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