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KT 5-9-2016.Qxp Layout 1 SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2016 THULHIJJA 3, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Alghanim Iranian Stray dogs Rosberg Industries pistachio find shelter reigns over sponsors farms dying in battered slow-starter startup5 event of13 thirst Gaza28 Strip Hamilton17 Some citizens avoiding DNA Min 30º tests selling houses cheaply Max 49º High Tide 01:46 & 13:33 MoI believes 250,000 Kuwaitis won’t take the tests Low Tide 07:48 & 20:14 40 PAGES NO: 16984 150 FILS By A Saleh MPs threaten to KUWAIT: Well-informed real estate sources have observed an unusual spike in real estate sales in Jahra, Ahmadi and grill ministers Farwaniya governorates over the past three months. The sources deduced that the reason behind such sales might be over petrol hike the owners’ fears of being forced to undergo mandatory DNA tests to get the new electronic passports. They added that By B Izzak many of them will not undergo the test in order to avoid being exposed that they obtained Kuwaiti citizenship KUWAIT: A number of MPs have vowed to grill ministers through forgery and by providing false data. over the government’s decision to hike petrol prices Moreover, the sources said that many owners in these without compensating Kuwaiti citizens or taking suffi- three governorates are offering their houses for sale for much cient measures to prevent prices of commodities to rise. less than their actual prices. “It is as if they want to get rid of Lawmakers are waiting for the start of the next parlia- the houses as soon as possible,” added the sources, noting mentary term early in October to start submitting their that these owners fear they would be exposed and want to grillings against the ministers of finance, commerce and leave Kuwait immediately. The sources also noted that the industry and others, with MP Ali Al-Khamees vowing to interior ministry expects that over 250,000 Kuwaitis will not do “whatever it takes” against the petrol increase. undergo DNA tests, although the ministry has warned citi- zens that they will not get the new electronic passports The government has so far ignored appeals and calls unless they do so, and that those who fail to do so will also by lawmakers to either postpone the petrol price lose their citizenships, jobs, housing and all other privileges increase, which went into effect on Thursday, or com- citizens get. pensate Kuwaiti citizens. MPs Khamees and Faisal Al- The government passed the DNA testing law in July 2015. Kandari yesterday joined a number of other lawmakers The DNA samples - obtained from saliva or blood - will be in insisting that they will file the grillings when the next stored in a lab at the General Department of Criminal parliamentary term opens, if the government refuses to Evidence in Dajeej. The bill was passed with national security compensate citizens. in mind, a senior official told Kuwait Times earlier this year. Khamees said the government utilized the summer KUWAIT: Sheep are unloaded from a truck at the livestock market in Al-Rai yesterday, ahead of the Eid Al-Adha Expats and visitors to Kuwait will also have to provide DNA recess of the National Assembly to carry out the petrol feast next week, which marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat samples to the government. price increase, adding that MPs are waiting for the next A recent report by Al-Shahed daily quoted security term to start to question ministers. MP Khalil Abul said sources as saying that Kuwait’s population suddenly saw a the timing of the decision to hike petrol prices was 9-day break for Eid Al-Adha sharp increase after the liberation of the state in Feb 1991, as wrong, adding that the decision was taken without any a result of which demand for marriage and housing loans credible economic studies. The lawmaker said that the KUWAIT: The Civil Services Commission yesterday on Sept 12, 13 and 14. Thursday, Sept 15 will also be increased. government should search for viable alternatives to issued a directive concerning the Eid Al-Adha holiday, off because it falls between two holidays, stretching Authorities believe many people got Kuwaiti citizenship prevent citizens from being harmed as a result of the noting that it will start on Sunday, Sept 11 and end on the Eid break to nine days. The directive added that fraudulently in an organized manner during this period, tak- decision. Thursday, Sept 15. The directive explained that Arafat official work at various ministries and government ing advantage of the chaos, resulting in the Kuwaiti popula- Continued on Page 13 Day falls on Sept 11, followed by the three Eid days establishments will resume on Sunday, Sept 18. tion rising from a mere 650,000 before the invasion to 1,300,000 at present. UAE approves new bankruptcy law Dubai plans $20bn district • Visas eased for Chinese Gulf corporate earnings slide KUWAIT: The earnings of Gulf-listed firms dropped eight percent in the first half of 2016 due to low oil prices and a lack of liquidity, a report said yesterday. Net profits of over 650 firms on the region’s bourses reached $32.8 billion in the six months against $35.6 billion for the same period of 2015, said Kuwait Financial Centre Markaz. All posted drops but for those on the stock market in Oman, where net earn- ings rose by seven percent, the investment firm said JEDDAH: Pilgrims walk outside King Abdul Aziz Airport on their arrival to this Red in a report. Sea port city yesterday. — AFP Stock exchanges in members of the Gulf Cooperation Council were hit hard last year and in the first few months of 2016 as a result of the sharp Saudis strive to prevent fall in oil revenues. They recovered some of the losses in the second quarter as crude prices rose to around DUBAI: Journalists and Emirati officials listen to Morgan Parker, Chief Operating repeat of fatal haj crush $50 a barrel from under $30. “Persisting lower oil Officer of Dubai Holding (first left, front row), as he explains over the architectural prices, liquidity squeeze and sedate global growth model of the “Jumeriah Central” project during a press briefing yesterday. — AP RIYADH: A year after the worst haj disaster Custodian of Islam’s most revered places, led to decline in GCC corporate earnings during the in a generation, Saudi Arabia is issuing pil- Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on organ- DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates’ cabi- Meanwhile, Dubai Holding, the invest- first half period of 2016, compared with the corre- grims with electronic bracelets and using izing haj, one of the five pillars of Islam net adopted a final version of the federal ment vehicle of the emirate’s ruler, has sponding period a year back,” said the report. “During more surveillance cameras to avoid a which every able-bodied Muslim who can bankruptcy law, as the oil-rich nation announced a $20 billion project to devel- the first half of 2016, corporate earnings in the GCC repeat of a crush that killed hundreds and afford to is obliged to undertake at least tries to attract investors put off by cur- op a new district in the city, signaling the fell by eight percent over the same period in 2015.” damaged already strained ties with Iran. once. Its prestige was damaged by the rent rules that criminalize an inability to emirate plans to keep growing rapidly The GCC groups Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, The world’s largest annual Muslim gather- 2015 disaster, in which Riyadh said 769 pil- repay debt. The law “aims to enhance for- despite the impact of low oil prices on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which ing, bringing some two million to Islam’s grims were killed - the highest haj death toll eign investment and ease the work of the region. But in an indication of some together pump around 18 million barrels of crude oil most sacred sites in Makkah, will also be a since a crush in 1990. Counts of fatalities by commercial companies,” Sheikh caution, officials said yesterday the proj- daily. In its report, Markaz projected the earnings of focus of concerns about militant violence countries that repatriated bodies showed Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the ect would be built in phases in response companies in the GCC would end the year down four after a suicide bomber killed four soldiers in that over 2,000 people may have died in UAE’s vice-president and prime minister to market demand, with no specific percent. early July in the nearby city of Madinah, the crush, more than 400 of them Iranians. and Dubai’s ruler, said on Twitter yester- deadline. They said financing arrange- Continued on Page 13 Islam’s second holiest. Continued on Page 13 day. The post included no details of the ments had not been finalized. new law. Continued on Page 13 Pope proclaims Mother Teresa a saint VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis yesterday pro- the slums of Kolkata as “eloquent witness to sial Nobel Peace prize speech in 1979. She claimed Mother Teresa a saint and hailed the God’s closeness to the poorest of the poor”. To “ceaselessly proclaimed that the unborn are the revered Catholic nun as an embodiment of applause, he added: “Mother Teresa loved to say, weakest”, he said. With the 16th century basilica maternal love who talked truth to power on ‘perhaps I don’t speak their language but I can of St Peter’s glinting in the late summer sun, behalf of the poor.
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