Arabic News Weekly Edition for Kuwait, 5/16/2005
Weekly Edition, Kuwait - Week of May 16, 2005
- Kuwait to invest $ 4 billion in developing transport sector
The first bids for these projects will be in July when companies working in Kuwait will submit bids for al-Sebyah road projects which will be carried out at three phases Kuwait, Economics, 5/19/2005 - Historic vote: Kuwaiti women get full political rights
The Kuwaiti women achieved a qualitative leap in enjoying their rights becoming able to practice full political rights through taking part in the elections as a voter and a candidate, alike. Kuwait, Politics, 5/17/2005 - Kuwaiti Islamists and giving women their rights
parliamentarian Fahd al-Khinna, the coordinator of the Islamists bloc at the Kuwaiti parliament said that his bloc voted against this law on the ground that "in the Sharia (Islamic law), a woman is not permitted to be nominated for elections or assuming governmental posts," adding but his bloc accepts the decision because it reflects the views of the majority. Kuwait, Politics, 5/17/2005