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Today In Kuwait's History


(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) KUWAIT, Jan 4 (KUNA) --

1981 -- Kuwait Society for Smoking and Cancer Prevention was proclaimed.
2012 -- Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopeca) signed a USD-nine-billion agreement to establish a refinery and petrochemical complex in south China.
2017 -- The Ministry of Health launched a system to transfer patients' data from ambulances to emergency sections at hospitals. This would help in diagnosing patients and provides necessary treatment prior to admission thus saving time.
2017 -- Former Minister of Commerce and Industry Hisham Al-Otaibi passed away at age of 71. The deceased was also former Director General of the Kuwait stock exchange and vice chair of the bourse committee.
2021 -- Ministry of Oil announced discovery of two oil wells at the jurassic layer in Homa field, northwest Kuwait, and in Qash'aniya field.
2021 -- Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah announced an agreement according to which borders would reopen between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. (end)
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