Kuwait & Guinness World Records for "Misbahs"

If you like "mesabee7" then you should already know about this person. He resides in Kuwait and will enter the Guinness World Records book for the biggest collection of amber mesabee7.

Kuwait Parliament Dissolved- Sources

Parliamentary sources confirmed today that Kuwait's parliament will be dissolved and new elections will be held on the 22nd of June, 2006.

Press Freedoms in Kuwait- 2006

I read in Al-Rai Al-Aam an article about Kuwait being ranked 1st Arab-wise, and 85th in the world, in terms of press freedoms. You can access all 153 pages of the Reporters Without Borders 2006 Report here.
Following are the two references to Kuwait in the report:

• "In Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s Equatorial Guinea no excuses need to be given for the desert for freedoms that the government runs. No-one talks about freedom of the press to the head of “Africa’s Kuwait”. - Never knew a Kuwait existed in Africa. Interesting twist! Quoted from page 4.
  
• The second reference is a map showing Kuwait on page 134.
• The ranking comes from the Worldwide Press Freedom Index. Kuwait ranks 85 out of 167 countries. Last place went to North Korea. To put it in context, in the same Index for 2004 Kuwait ranked 103. In 2003 Kuwait ranked 102, and in 2002, Kuwait ranked 78. Therefore, Al-Rai Al-Aam is boasting about a good rank being 1st in Arab countries etc, yet it fails to state that this is a failure compared to 2002 when Kuwait was ranked 78. Kuwait went backwards for 2003 and 2004, and is rebounding. No big deal really.
  

US Intellectual Property Report & Kuwait

You might have come across this in the newspapers today. Click here for the complete International Intellectual Property Alliance 2006 Special 301 Report's (.pdf) section on Kuwait. You can also access the table of contents here.

Resuming Transmission with Jassim Boodai Video

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Kuwait2005 is glad to announce the resumption of transmission.

If you read Sunday's newspapers in Kuwait, you might have read about Al Rai Al Aam's Editor-in-Chief Jassim Boodai legal troubles. So what did he actually say? To find out, take a look at the video yourself, posted by q8direct-blogspot.com last February. The actual footage was aired first on C-Span 2 on 20-01-2006. It is must-see-tv. Some people thrive on controversy and want to appear as the champions of civil rights and liberties. However, many of these people fail miserably in the end.

• Jassim Boodai responds in his newspaper
  
• News of Boodai's legal troubles
• AlShaeb's originally published article about Boodai which got its Editor-in-Chief Hamid Buyabis into legal trouble