Honeywell Sustainability Whitepaper

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While sustainability is gaining broad-based interest and appeal among company executives, there is no one-size-fits-all approach for those companies ready to embark on the sustainability journey.

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January 11th - Business leaders from across the country and around the world joined the U.S. Chamber for their webinar on the 'State of American Business 2022', in which they discussed how the challenges, disruptions, and opportunities accelerated by the pandemic are creating a new economic era that American businesses will help define the ways forward. 

January 16th - The ABCK-AmCham Kuwait held its 1st WIB focus group meeting for the year 2022, led by Dr. Arezou Harraf. Read more...

January 23rd - The ABCK-AmCham Kuwait held its 1st F&B/FMCG focus group meeting for the year 2022 with a guest speaker from the World Bank and led by Akram Kamal (Chair of the Focus Group). Topics of discussion included: competition principles, consumer protection, and global market issues. Read more...

January 25th - The Overseas Security Advisory Council- Kuwait (OSACK) held a presentation on ‘Combatting High-Tech Money Laundering and Cybercrime: The Role of the Private Sector’ by Puneet Kakkar, Resident Legal Advisor to the Gulf Region- U.S. Embassy Kuwait, Assistant U.S. Attorney- Los Angeles.

January 26th - Kuwait: ABCK-AmCham Kuwait hosted a 2-session virtual workshop on ‘How to do Business with the U.S. Military’ with speakers from the U.S. Army’s Regional Contracting Center- Kuwait (RCC-KU), The Theater Contracting Center- Southwest Asia (TCC-SWA), and the U.S. Air Force’s 386TH ECONS. The event was held in partnership with several American Chambers of Commerce (AmChams) in the GCC: Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. Read more...

January 31st - The ABCK - AmCham Kuwait held an Informational Session and Speed Networking Event which was attended by several AmCham Members, Partners, Business Councils, and Friends. Read more...

ABK Celebrates Kuwait National Day with a Chance to win up to KD1,000



Throughout the month of February, and in celebration of Kuwait National Day, Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) is presenting its Emirates Visa credit cardholders a chance to win up to KD1,000 in travel vouchers from Q’go Group. The exciting draw will give 10 winners a chance to win a KD500 travel voucher each, while one lucky winner will win the mega prize of the KD1,000 travel voucher. Read more...

The Library at the American University of Kuwait Among First Users of the OHMS Application in the Arab World

The Library at the American University of Kuwait (AUK) has started utilizing the latest application for the indexing and archiving of oral history interviews. The application has been launched by the libraries of the University of Kentucky in the United States of America, which facilitates the synchronization of the recorded audio and the written transcript of the interview,... Read more...

Cigna Insurance Middle East receives participating insurer license

Cigna Insurance Middle East (CIME), a health solutions and services company, has announced that it has received the Participating Insurer license issued by the Dubai Health Insurance Corporation (DHIC). Read more...

Cisco Study Finds Privacy is Now Mission Critical for Organizations Worldwide

DNS tunneling is a technique that encodes data of other programs and protocols in DNS queries, including data payloads that can be used to control a remote server and applications. Because of this, DNS tunneling – and DNS exfiltration associated with it by threat actors – is of great concern to many IT and SecOps teams. Read more...

Fluor Joint Venture Begins Work to Reconstruct Chicago Transit Authority’s North Main Curve to Speed Service

Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) and its joint venture partner Walsh Construction Company broke ground today to rebuild and straighten a section of Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) North Main Line Red and Purple Line track structure, a portion of track on the historic Red and Purple Modernization (RPM) Phase One Project that has been slowing traffic for more than a century. Read more...

GDLS receives Abrams FMS contract

General Dynamics Land Systems Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $14,516,978 modification (P00163) to contract W56HZV-17-C-0067 for Abrams systems technical support. Work will be performed in Sterling Heights, Michigan, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 27, 2023. Read more...

Gulf Insurance Group-Kuwait Donates to the Kuwait Red Crescent Society in Honor of International Day of Education

Gulf Insurance Group-Kuwait (GIG-Kuwait), the pioneer in providing insurance services in Kuwait, announced the sponsorship of the “Donate for Their Education” campaign, organized by the Kuwait Red Crescent Society. The campaign aims to collect donations to pay school fees for less fortunate children in the Kuwait and cover their education expenses. Read more...

L3HARRIS EARNS PERFECT SCORE IN 2022 CORPORATE EQUALITY INDEX

For the eighth consecutive year, L3Harris has been recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), receiving a perfect score of 100% on the 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI).

The HRC recently released the 2022 list, which rates companies based on LGBTQ+-related policies and practices, including non-discrimination workplace protections,.. Read more...

Building resiliency and spurring innovation: customers are using the Microsoft Cloud to advance industries and keep business moving forward

Since the start of the pandemic, organizations representing a cross-section of industries have mobilized to adopt digital technologies to gain insights from their data and unlock cloud-based innovation. With the Microsoft Cloud, customers are reimagining ways to deliver patient care and provide access to critical services, secure their digital environments to scale and maintain business operations, extend frontline worker productivity, enhance employee experiences, and encourage new forms of business engagement and interaction. Read more...

PROCAPITA’s CEO On Sky News Arabia

An interview with the CEO of Procapita Management Consulting Mr. Mohammad Abu Al-Rob discussing the second comprehensive annual report on human resource and employment trends for the year 2021 in Kuwait. Read more...

Zain upgraded to A- in the latest 'CPD Score Report - Climate Change 2021', ranking it first in the region and among leaders globally

Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa has scored an A- in the latest CDP Score Report – Climate Change 2021, which ranks the company within the Leadership band. This ranking is higher than the regional average for Asia of B-, and higher than the Media, Telecommunications & Data Center Services sector average of B. Read more...

Kuwait approves cyber security bill

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 18: The Kuwaiti government on Monday endorsed a number of bills on the Capital Markets Authority’s budget, establishing the national center for cyber security, amending the law regarding the Kuwait diplomatic institute and others. This came during the cabinet meeting led by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah at Saif Palace. Read more...

Kuwait, US officials discuss bilateral ties, military cooperation

KUWAIT: Kuwait Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Khaled Saleh Al-Sabah met yesterday with the US 55th Chief of Engineers, Lieutenant-General Scott Spellmon, and his delegation, currently on an official visit to the country. Kuwait Armed Forces stated in a press release that the two ranking military officials discussed bilateral ties, cooperation, and issues of common interest, especially in the military field and ways of boosting military coordination. Several senior officials attended the meeting. ​Read more...

KD 503.5 Insurance fee for above 60’s non graduate expats

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 1: The Insurance regulatory group issued a decision to regulate mechanism for issuing insurance for non graduate expats above 60 yrs of age for KD 500. The total fee for Insurance is KD 503.5 ( Documentation KD 2.5, and 1 KD for supervisory & office work. Read more...

Kuwait's parliament approves Credit Bank capital hike

Kuwait's parliament on Tuesday unanimously approved a legislative amendment to increase by 300 million dinars ($993.31 million) the capital of the state-run Kuwait Credit Bank to offer more financial support for residential housing. Read more...

Kuwait’s Health Minister says dealing with COVID requires adaptability and flexibility

KUWAIT: Dealing with continuous ramifications of COVID-19 required adaptability and flexibility via following health procedures and precautions, including speeding up vaccinations and PCR tests, Health Minister Dr. Khaled Al-Saeed said yesterday. Addressing a National Assembly session on the government’s workplan to curb the spread of the coronavirus,Dr. Saeed affirmed that the upward trend of infection during the current wave indicated that the pandemic was “far from over”. Read more...

KOC submits 50 tenders to CAPT

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 8: About 50 tenders of the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) have been submitted to the Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT) for offering or studying bids before final awarding to the winning companies. The number of tenders being offered is considered the highest since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country about two years ago, reports Al-Anba daily quoting informed sources from the oil sector. Read more...

Site allocated for recycling of oil waste

KUWAIT CITY, Dec 22: According to an informed source in Kuwait Municipality, the request of the Direct Investment Promotion Authority was approved by the concerned department in the municipality to allocate a site of an area of one million and 560,000 square meters for the establishment of industrial project sites for recycling of oil waste in Al-Zour Refinery in north of the country, reports Al-Qabas daily. Read more...

US-Kuwait hold fifth session of ministerial meeting of strategic dialogue in Washington; discuss vital issues

Wednesday, the United States of America, and State of Kuwait held its fifth session of the ministerial meeting of the strategic dialogue in Washington, where the Kuwaiti side was chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Al-Nasser, while the American side was chaired by the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Read more...

US supports strengthening democratic institutions in Kuwait

President Biden and Secretary Blinken have committed to elevating the role of human rights in our foreign policy, especially with our partners that we care deeply about, such as Kuwait. We clearly seek to support and strengthen the role of democratic institutions, and to show the importance of active civil political participation. We support enabling citizens to contribute to the civil life of their countries in order to achieve prosperity and security. Read more...