Nationality Quotas Eyed to Adjust Demographics
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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 2015 RABI ALAWWAL 20, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net ‘Love Life’ Pak cartoonists The ‘human’ Loss to China distributes tread fine line side of robots compounds free meals in land of at Las Vegas Saudi woes to workers2 blasphemy13 laws electronics27 show at18 Asian Cup Nationality quotas eyed Min 03º Max 15º to adjust demographics High Tide 02:37 & 16:08 Low Tide Govt mulls new visas, fees • Influx of 300,000 workers seen 09:33 & 21:58 40 PAGES NO: 16399 150 FILS KUWAIT: The government is considering a plan to adjust Former minister the demography of the state, informed sources have revealed. The sources said that the proposal Minister of jailed for article Social Affairs and Labor and Planning Hind Al-Subaih will present to the Cabinet includes setting a quota for each slamming govt nationality, while seeking the opinion of the Fatwa and Legislation Department since Kuwait is committed to sev- KUWAIT: The authorities arrested a former liberal eral international treaties. The sources said the social Cabinet minister as he attempted to leave the affairs and planning ministries are working on a study of country yesterday after being sentenced to a week the marketplace and the population structure to deter- in jail over an article criticizing the government, mine the numbers of various nationalities and their con- his lawyer said. Saad bin Tifleh Al-Ajmi, informa- centration in certain professions. tion minister between 1999-2000, was detained at Meanwhile, the Assistant Undersecretary for the airport as he, his wife and daughter were try- Nationality and Iqama Affairs Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah said ing to leave for a pilgrim- bedoons are not allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia by car, age to Saudi Arabia, Al- and promised an easing of the salary conditions for Humaidi Al-Subaie said on reunion visas. He said iqama and visit fees will be Twitter. reviewed, and new categories of visas will be introduced. He said Ajmi, a profes- Jarrah announced a study to reconsider fees for iqama sor at Kuwait University and visit visas, adding a technical committee has given a and contributor to several proposal on the new fees that he will submit to Deputy Gulf newspapers, was sen- PM and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al- tenced Thursday for an Sabah for approval. article published by the Sheikh Mazen said the charges under study include Saad Al-Ajmi pro-opposition Al-Aan increasing the fee of a government visa from KD 3 to KD electronic newsletter about two years ago about 10, and raising the fee of a private sector visa from KD 3 to alleged government corruption. The court also KD 30. He said the charges must reflect economic changes passed the same sentence on writer Zayed Al-Zaid, and make state revenues commensurate with the services who co-owns Al-Aan with Ajmi, on a complaint by offered to individuals and companies, in addition to the Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh, the lawyer said. fact that it will limit iqama trade. He said Article 15 of the There was no immediate report whether Zaid had iqama law will be activated so that an iqama will not be also been arrested. granted to an expat whose passport is valid for less than a TABUK, Saudi Arabia: Saudi men play with snow yesterday in the Aleghan Heights, located some 1,500 km Continued on Page 13 year, in order to protect the expat and national security. northwest of the capital Riyadh, after a heavy snowstorm hit parts of the Middle East. — AFP Continued on Page 13 France hunts female suspect Rallies held for victims • AQAP issues new threat PARIS: Hundreds of thousands of people in a fiery climax to twin hostage dramas defiantly rallied throughout France yester- on Friday still on the loose. But a police Child suicide day in solidarity with victims of this week’s source revealed that 26-year-old Hayat Islamist attacks, while the wanted widow Boumeddiene, the “armed and danger- bomber kills of one of the gunmen was said to have ous” partner of Amedy Coulibaly who left the country. The massive rallies came took shoppers hostage in a Jewish super- 19 in Nigeria on the eve of a historic march set for Paris market, was not in France at the time of in tribute to the 17 victims of the three- the killings. MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Two explosions rocked north- day killing spree, and security forces were Coulibaly shot dead a young police- east Nigeria yesterday, including one by a female sui- mapping out a major deployment aimed woman on Thursday and then took the cide bomber thought to be just 10 years old who at preventing fresh violence. shoppers hostage Friday, and while police blew herself up in a crowded market, as the US con- World leaders including British Prime had suspected Boumeddiene may have demned a bloody spike in Boko Haram violence. At Minister David Cameron and German had a role in her partner’s violent acts, she least 19 people were killed at the Monday Market in Chancellor Angela Merkel were to attend was likely in Turkey then, the anonymous the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, at about 12:40 pm todday’s march in support of France, bad- source said. The source, who declined to The tail of the AirAsia QZ8501 passenger plane lies on the deck of the when it was packed with shoppers and traders. Hours ly shaken by the violence. Security levels be named, said investigators were check- Indonesian Search and Rescue (BASARNAS) ship Crest Onyx after it was recov- later, a suspicious vehicle that had been stopped at a were kept at France’s highest level, with ing whether she was now in Syria. ered at sea yesterday. — AFP checkpoint outside the city of Potiskum, in neigh- the widow of one of three gunmen killed Continued on Page 13 bouring Yobe, exploded at a police station as its driver was being taken in for questioning. A police officer AirAsia jet tail lifted, accompanying the car and the driver were killed, an officer said. Potiskum has been a repeated target for militant violence. no black boxes found The US State Department said Boko Haram’s recent escalation of attacks on civilians “shows no regard for ABOARD KRI BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: To aid the tracking of the signals, human life” and called for those responsible to be The mangled tail of an AirAsia plane that Supriyadi said the engines of the warships brought to justice. “The United States abhors such vio- crashed with 162 people on board was lift- involved in the search operation would be lence, which continues to take a terrible toll on the ed out of the Java Sea yesterday, but with- turned off today. Search efforts also involv- people of Nigeria and the broader region, including out the crucial flight recorders, Indonesian ing foreign naval ships continued through- Cameroon,” it added. Boko Haram were seen as authorities said. The Airbus jet went miss- out yesterday for other parts of the plane’s behind the attack in Maiduguri as it has increasingly ing in stormy weather on Dec 28 as it flew wreckage, as well as for the bodies of the used women and young girls as human bombs in from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to passengers and crew. Just 48 bodies have their deadly campaign for a hardline Islamic state. Singapore, killing all aboard. The wreckage been found so far, according to Indonesian Civilian vigilante Ashiru Mustapha said the blast of the tail, which contained the black box authorities. There was no success on happened as the girl was being searched at the data recorders that are essential to explain- Saturday in finding the cabin part of the entrance to the market. “The girl was about 10 years ing the disaster, was found in the seabed plane where most of the passengers were. old and I doubt if she actually knew what was 10 days after the crash. “We strongly intend to find other parts strapped to her body,” he told AFP. Witness Abubakar The 10-m-long stretch of mostly man- of the plane as we are confident that the Bakura said: “The blast split the suicide bomber into gled metal was finally lifted on to a tug- victims’ (bodies) are still trapped in there,” two and flung one part across the road. NICE, France: Tens of thousands of people, some holding up signs that read “Je boat vessel on Saturday using giant bal- Indonesian military chief Moeldoko told Continued on Page 13 suis Charlie”, march during a rally along the seafront in this Mediterranean city loons and a crane, but there was no sign of reporters. All but seven of those on board yesterday. — AFP (See Page 10) the black boxes. “It’s definite that the black were Indonesian. The non-Indonesians boxes aren’t there,” S B Supriyadi, a director were three South Koreans, one with the National Search and Rescue Singaporean, one Malaysian, one Briton Future TV a sphere? Agency, told reporters after the tail had and a Frenchman - co-pilot Remi Plesel. been inspected. The black boxes are seen The Indonesian meteorological agency LAS VEGAS: The TV of the future may not be ing event,” Antonovich said. as important because they should contain has said weather was the “triggering factor” a rectangle, but a sphere. Some visitors to the Using the sphere makes the viewing an the pilots’ final words as well as various for the crash, with ice likely damaging the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show got a peek interactive and collaborative experience, said flight data.