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Ministry planning to raise minimum salary cap for family visa to KD 500

News papers are quoting sources commenting that there is a plan to increase the minimum salary required for sponsoring Family to KD 500. 

Ministry of Interior (MoI) is considering to increase the monthly minimum wage required to take family visa for expatriates to KD 500 from the current 250 Dinar, reports Kuwait Times daily. The move comes as part of the country's continuing efforts to introduce more stringent eligibility criteria for expatriate workers, daily added.

A decision like this could mean that many expatriate workers in the country would be forced to leave their families back home. 

"The introduction of such a regulation would help Kuwait to regain control over the labor market, with the number of 'excess workers' greatly reduced", Kuwait Times daily reported quoting MoI official.

Submitted by LonaSon on 16-Jul-11 5:43 PM

Internet service providers to lower rates by 15-25 pct

Kuwaiti internet-providers are set to lower their charges for the service by 15-25 percent, Ministry of Communications Undersecretary Abdulmohsin Al-Mazidi said on Friday. 

After a meeting between the ministry and internet providers in the country, Al-Mazidi said that agreement had been reached between the parties, whereby a recently company-proposed policy called 'fare usage', will not see the light. 

The policy, said to be proposed by companies, called for a download limit for users that if exceeded, would automatically release lower speed and bandwidth. The agreement will be effective as of one week of its signature, which occurred during the meeting, added the ministry official. The agreement applies to each of the four internet companies in Kuwait; FASTtelco, Qualitynet, Gulfnet Communications and KEMS.

Three blasts rock Mumbai, CM Chavan says 20 dead, 113 injured

Three near-simultaneous explosions rocked Mumbai at rush-hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in what the government said appeared to be another terrorist strike in the city hit by a major attack nearly three years ago.

Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said the latest attack killed 20 people, and home minister P Chidambaram said the toll was likely to rise.

Television footage showed dozens of police officials, several of them armed, at the sites of the explosion and at least one car with its windows shattered. A photograph showed victims of a blast at the Zaveri Bazaar crowding into the back of a cargo truck to be taken to a hospital.

Because of the close timing of the string of explosions, ``we infer that this was a coordinated attack by terrorists,'' home minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said.

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Just be careful when you drive

19 died in road accidents in first week of July

Nineteen people died in various accidents across the country on the first week of July. 10 among these are expatriates and 9 are Kuwaitis. In its weekly report, Ministry of Interior called upon all road users to be careful and comply with traffic regulations for their own and others safety.

It shows the importance of carefull driving needed in Kuwait Streets

Submitted by LonaSon on 11-Jul-11 10:10 PM
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Residency violators failed to complete amnesty procedures get extra days for processing

Illegal residents who failed to use the Amiri amnesty due to the prolonged delay in completing the official transactions can get extra time to process their pending works to leave the country. To finalize their procedures, authorities gave an extension to a new July 27 deadline.

Between March 1 and June 30, the Amiri Amnesty gave residency violators an opportunity to leave Kuwait without paying penalty fine or facing other legal problems. Many illegal resident were in a difficult situation when their residency transaction which were submitted within the amnesty period couldn’t be finished in time before the deadline passed due to prolonged official procedures.

Submitted by LonaSon on 11-Jul-11 10:06 PM

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