SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2016 SHAABAN 26, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Health fees Rare ‘baby The Real Fouz: Djokovic hits for expats to dragon’ You are going $100m jackpot, be increased hatches in to definitely into French by 15-20%6 Slovenia29 nail38 this one! Open20 quarters Kuwait removed from list Min 28º of labor rights violators Max 43º High Tide 09:01 & 22:03 Subaih urges world to protect workers’ rights Low Tide 02:48 & 15:48 40 PAGES NO: 16892 150 FILS GENEVA: Kuwait has been removed from a list of coun- OPEC upbeat, tries that the International Labor Organization (ILO) con- Amir opens court complexes siders violating labor rights, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih said yesterday. The removal of Kuwait wants Kuwait’s name was a result of great efforts by national authorities to address all shortcomings related to labor fair oil price issues, Subaih, also Minister of State for Planning and Development, said in a statement to KUNA. VIENNA: OPEC ministers were cautiously confident yes- She underlined that Kuwait worked hard to address all terday that the oil market is finally on the mend, remarks raised by ILO regarding labor issues. She said she cementing expectations that the cartel will keep crude met with Ruba Jaradat, regional director of the ILO’s Arab gushing at a meeting in Vienna. “The market is improv- Office, describing the discussion as “constructive”. Subaih ing,” Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister Fayyad Al-Nima said a said they discussed the development of the manpower day before the biannual gathering of the Organization authority and cooperation between Kuwait and the of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. “The market will countries exporting workers to Kuwait. She said they also become better in the second half of the year,” he pre- discussed the unions’ law. dicted, in comments echoed by other delegates from Kuwait also called on the international community to the 13-nation group. The most powerful though, Saudi apply the human rights laws to provide better living con- Arabia’s new oil minister Khaled Al-Falih - newly ditions for all people, including development and social appointed by the dynamic young Deputy Crown Prince equality. “It is an international responsibility to end the Mohammed bin Salman - was tight-lipped. suffering of citizens in Palestine and other occupied Arab Kuwait is keen on maintaining dialogue between lands, who are deprived of their simplest rights as OPEC and non-OPEC members to help achieve greater humans and are denied of having decent jobs,” Subaih balance in the oil market and wants to see a “fair” price said during the 105th session of the International Labor for producers and consumers, the state’s acting oil min- Conference yesterday. ister told state news agency KUNA. Anas Al-Saleh also “Kuwait is keen to cooperate with the world to achieve said an understanding was expected among OPEC oil the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for ministers meeting in Vienna on a candidate for a new 2030,” she added. In this context, she said that Kuwait is secretary general of the organization, KUNA said in a executing many projects aiming to develop the country report overnight on Tuesday. on all levels and provide people with a better life. Subaih Traditionally OPEC, which pumps around a third of KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (right) is seen with Minister of Justice noted that the country has issued several laws that allow the world’s crude, has collectively cut back or increased and Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Yaqoub Al-Sane during the opening ceremony of the Farwaniya and those in charge of applying these legislations to further output in an attempt to manage the volatile price of oil. Jahra court complexes yesterday. — KUNA (See Page 3) protect the rights of people. Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 World’s longest tunnel opens POLLEGIO, Switzerland: The world’s cost of over 12 billion Swiss francs ($12 longest tunnel officially opened yesterday, billion), with 125 laborers rotating in News with the trailblazing rail passage under the three shifts to lay the tunnel’s slab track in brief Swiss Alps aiming to ease transit through in 43,800 hours of non-stop work, the heart of Europe. With Europe’s political according to the Swiss rail service. unity shaken by a massive migrant crisis German Chancellor Angela Merkel, MoI grants amnesty and the looming threat of Britain’s EU exit, French President Francois Hollande and to detained police Swiss President Johann Schneider- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi were KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has granted an Ammann said the tunnel would “join the among the passengers on the first train amnesty to all detained police officers on the occasion of people and the economies” of Europe. He yesterday. The trio sat together in a first- the holy month of Ramadan. The decision has been made spoke as the first train made a ceremonial class carriage, along with Schneider- by Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh run through the 57-km Gotthard Base Ammann, and chatted over glasses of Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on humanitari- Tunnel (GBT) beneath the region’s spec- water through the 20-minute journey an grounds to mark the advent of the holy month, a state- tacular mountain peaks, with European from Erstfeld in the central canton of Uri ment by the ministry noted. leaders on board. southward to Ticino canton. The tunnel took 17 years to build, at a Continued on Page 13 DUBAI: Two women pass by on Tuesday what the United Arab Emirates says is Saudi Arabia sentences the world’s first functional office building made using three-dimensional printer 14 to death for terrorism RIYADH: Saudi Arabia sentenced 14 people to death for technology. — AP terrorism yesterday after they were convicted of attacks on police in Qatif in the Eastern Province, scene of past Dubai office showcases anti-government protests, their lawyer said. Another nine people were given jail sentences of three to 15 years and one was acquitted, their defense lawyer, who 3-D printing’s potential asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters. Arabiya TV said the charges had included opening fire on security DUBAI: There are office printers that spit ticles, while a Wisconsin schoolteacher forces and civilians, causing several deaths and destruc- out documents and others that always seem recently fashioned prosthetic feet for a duck to jam. And then there those that make the who lost his due to frostbite. The technology tion of property. They were also accused of peddling office itself. A small group of employees in has been used in other construction proj- drugs and armed robbery against shops and cars. Dubai is starting to move into a new work- ects too, including a Dutch canal house space that the emirate says is the world’s being raised in Amsterdam. But the founda- first functional office building made using tion says its Dubai office is the first “fully US woman jailed for three-dimensional printer technology. functional 3-D printed building,” construct- insulting UAE freed Dubai’s ruler quietly inaugurated the white- ed with full services and meant for daily use. DUBAI: The government-owned The National newspa- washed buildings last week, not far from the The Chinese company WinSun Global per in the United Arab Emirates reported Tuesday that site of a planned “Museum of the Future” used a 20-foot tall printer squirting out an American woman has been acquitted of charges that that is due to open in 2018. cement and other materials to produce the she insulted the country after more than three months Looking like a mash-up of a “Jetsons” 17 building modules for the new Dubai imprisonment. It said a psychological evaluation abode and an Apple Store, the compact office, according to the foundation. The showed she was mentally ill. The 25-year old woman office was printed out layer by layer over 17 pieces were then shipped from China to the was facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly insulting ERSTFELD, Switzerland: Swiss Federal President Johann Schneider-Ammann lis- days at a cost of $140,000, said Saif Al- Gulf port city, where it took workers two the UAE in public after being approached by two men tens to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the opening day of the Gotthard Aleeli, the CEO of a government initiative days to piece them together. Further work, at Abu Dhabi International Airport. rail tunnel yesterday. — AP called the Dubai Future Foundation that is including the installment of the interiors behind the project. Features include a tree- and landscaping, took another three shaded outdoor garden deck and LED months. Designers left open part of the fin- lights that automatically adjust to the ishing in the foyer so visitors can see how Signals detected from EgyptAir black box brightness outside. the 3-D printed layers came together, row CAIRO: A French navy vessel using deep-water detection systems to listen for the “pings” from flight MS804. Another vessel sent by “Why 3-D printing? Because it makes after squiggly row. sense in terms of cost, in terms of time-sav- The building occupies prime real-estate listening devices has detected signals from emitted by the flight recorders, said France’s Deep Ocean Search (DOS), a private company ing, in terms of efficiency,” the 29-year-old between the city’s iconic twin Emirates one of the black boxes that could explain why aviation safety agency BEA. “The detection hired to help find the black boxes, is on its Aleeli said.