In the early 1980s, Kuwait's unofficial stock market — run out of a parking garage on the site of an old camel market — was the third largest in the world, second only to the U.S. and Japan. But then, in an instant, it all came crashing down, plunging Kuwait into a brutal recession that would last for nearly a decade. How is it that a simple financial innovation could create such vast wealth and such devastating chaos? And what can it teach us about the fundamental forces at the heart of modern capitalism?

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Friday released initial assistance to the family of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) from South Cotabato province who was killed by her employer in Kuwait late last month.

The Court of Cassation sentenced a 40-year-old Lebanese woman to four-year imprisonment with hard labor for killing her 60-year-old mother.

The negligence of a expat worker working for a maintenance company at Al-Zour Station resulted in a financial fine as an environmental penalty for the company due to the disposal of wastes and liquid materials at sea reports AlQabas

The health ministry allocated nearly KD 6 million to make available multiple sclerosis medicines, in addition to medicines for other diseases, with the aim to provide the best medicines and medical supplies all year round and make sure no shortages occur.

As the countdown to herald in the New Year 2020, a young Kuwaiti who is believed to be not more than 23 years old is said to have ended his life by hanging himself inside his house in Salwa, reports Al-Anba daily.

Kuwait is utterly committed to the protection of expatriate labour rights, particularly domestic workers, an official said on Thursday, underlining that breaching these rights is not tolerated under any circumstances.

A Kuwaiti woman in her 40s has been arrested at the airport and referred to the General Department of Drug Control for attempting to smuggle 12 ampoules of liquid hashish, reports Al- Anba daily.

The corpse of a Kuwaiti citizen in his 40s was discovered in an open yard in Sulaibiya area. According to security sources, when the Operations Room of Ministry of Interior received information about the discovery of the corpse, securitymen and paramedics rushed to the location and recovered the corpse.

A high number of Indian expatriates in Kuwait suffer from head, neck and thyroid cancer, reports Aljarida daily quoting a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Board of the Cancer Awareness Nation (CAN) Campaign Dr Essa Al-Shaheen. Based on statistics issued by Kuwait Cancer Center, Dr Al- Shaheen explained that the head and neck cancer includes cancers of the mouth, nose, sinuses, salivary glands, throat and lymph nodes in the neck.