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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014
LOCAL
KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince with HH Sheikh Nasser Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace yesterday. —KUNA
HH Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah with CBK Governor Mohammad Al-Hashel
Crown Prince receives top Kuwaiti figures, foreign guests
KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince
Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
received at Bayan Palace yesterday His
Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad AlAhmad Al-Sabah. HH Sheikh Nawaf also
received Governor of the Central Bank of
Kuwait (CBK) Mohammad Al-Hashel, Finance
Minister Anas Al-Saleh and Togolese
Economy and Finance Minister Adji Oteth
Ayassor.
Ayassor handed over HH the Crown Prince
a letter from Togolese President Faure
Gnassingbe addressed to HH the Amir Sheikh
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah about
means to bolster bilateral relations.
HH the Crown Prince also received
Mauritanian Minister of Economy and
Development Sidi Ould Tah who handed him
a letter from Mauritanian President Mohamed
Ould Abdelaziz addressed to HH the Amir
Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
and focuses on bilateral relations. The meetings with Togolese and Mauritanian ministers
were attended by Deputy Minister of Amiri
Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah and
Undersecretary of HH Crown Prince for
Protocols Sheikh Mubarak Sabah Al-Salem
Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. HH the Crown Prince
also received Deputy National Assembly
Speaker Mubarak Al-Khurainej. — KUNA
VIVA top in social media
in Kuwait, region
KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing
and most developed telecom operator,
has always been committed to providing high quality, competitively priced
telecommunication services to maximize customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Since the company’s inception, VIVA
has been a pioneer in the launch of
numerous new services, promotions
and adopting new technologies to facilitate communicating with its customers.
VIVA’s leading social media presence
on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook,
when compared to its peers, stems from
the company’s strong belief in using
social network sites as a medium to
interact with Kuwaiti audiences. VIVA’s
Instagram account @vivatelecom has
successfully reached over 100 thousand
followers, making it the number one
Instagram account in Kuwait amongst
the telecom operators. VIVA had also
launched a dedicated Instagram
account for football fans (@dawriviva) as
a way of building on its five year exclusive partnership agreement with the
Kuwait Football Association (KFA),
bringing audiences ever-closer to the
action. VIVA’s @dawriviva account
showcases the most important stories
and hottest talents that Dawri VIVA has
to offer. Through the @dawriviva
account, football fans and sports enthusiasts have exclusive and instant access
to breaking news, results, developments, previews, live sports reports,
match timings, as well as the latest player announcements and unique photographs of players and games.
VIVA has also been an active tweep
on Twitter, with a verified account
which has over 177 thousand followers,
enabling customers and followers know
the latest developments from the company. VIVA’s Chief Executive Officer, Eng
Salman Al Badran has been a strong
advocate of social media, with 145,000
followers on his personal verified twitter page, to respond and update his
customers with the latest developments by the company.
Facebook was one of the first social
media channels to open its door in the
Middle East, gaining major popularity
across the region for both individuals
and corporations when it did so. VIVA
has been leading on this front and now
has over 300,000 likes on its Facebook
page, which it actively uses to highlight
the company’s developments, promotions and competitions to its audience.
The company has run many competitions on these social media channels,
engaging with its customers on an ongoing basis, letting them know the latest in technological advancements
while they are on the go. VIVA has also
continued to highlight events and
activities from its partnership agreements with two of the leading football
teams in the world, the Spanish team
Real Madrid and the English team
Manchester United, bringing their fans
all the up to date news and statistics.
VIVA has regularly displayed its commitment towards corporate social
responsibility (CSR), playing an active
role in supporting the Kuwaiti community on many levels. Today, the company takes pride in being seen by the
local community as one of Kuwait’s
leading socially responsible and environmentally aware commercial organizations. VIVA’s CSR activities can be
reviewed on the company’s website at
www.viva.com.kw/csr and these are
also highlighted throughout the company’s social media channels.
VIVA plans to increase its attention
to LinkedIn, a business-oriented social
networking service, aiming to attract
both local and foreign talent to the
company as it grows and expands in
the market. It will also use the platform
to communicate with its peers in the
business community more frequently.
VIVA is immensely proud of its social
media success and its ongoing engagement with its customers, and will continue to utilize its media expertise to
reach the widest possible audience.
To find out more about VIVA’s
awards, initiatives and latest competitive promotions, products and packages, visit one of the 58 VIVA branches,
or the VIVA website www.viva.com.kw,
or call VIVA’s 24 hour call center on 102.
KUWAIT: Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled meets members of the journey’s board of trustees. — KUNA
FM receives Hope journey board
KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and
Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled AlHamad Al-Sabah received yesterday the board
of trustees of the Journey of Hope and congratulated them on the successful tour around
the world.
Sheikh Sabah Khaled said the Journey of
Hope had achieved set targets, namely highlighting Kuwait’s civilized and humanitarian
image as well as the country’s support to the
disabled.
Board Chairman and Executive Director of
the Journey of Hope Youssef Abdulhamid AlJassim, and board members, expressed gratitude to Sheikh Sabah Khaled for the support
and facilities offered by the Foreign Ministry
and diplomatic missions overseas during the
tour, which helped realize the set goals.
The delegation included Sheikha Sheikha
Al-Abdullah Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah, Captain Faisal
Thanian Al-Ghanim, Dr Modhi Al-Hamoud,
brigadier Khaled Al-Kandari, Saoud Faisal
Alghanim and Rehab Boresly.
Separately, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled met vis-
iting Togo’s Finance M inister Adji O teth
Ayassor, and his accompanying delegation. The
meeting was attended by the Foreign
Minister’s Office Director Ambassador Sheikh
Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah,
Acting Director of African Department Hamad
Sulaiman Al-Meshaan and other officials from
the Ministry.
The Foreign Minister also received the credentials of the newly-appointed ambassador
of Kazakhstan to the State of Kuwait, Almas
Abdramanov. —KUNA
CBK concludes employees training program
KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK)
celebrated the graduation of six employees from
a special training course titled ‘Newly
Graduating Kuwaiti bankers Recruitment and
development Program.’ The celebration was
attended by CBK executive administration team
members and a group of bankers. The course
was recently held under auspices of the Central
Bank of Kuwait. Speaking on the occasion, CBK’s
Human Resources Department Manager,
Mohammed Amin stressed that enrolling
employees in specialized training course was
part of the bank’s policy to give them modern
knowledge and skills that would positively influence their jobs performance.
KUWAIT: Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Kuwait Murat Tamer hosted a reception at his residence on the occasion of the proclamation
of the Turkish republic. Senior officials, diplomats, members of the Turkish community in Kuwait and media representatives attended the reception. — Photos by Joseph Shagra