KOC aims to raise awareness of developments in

ARAB TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014
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‘KOC aims to raise awareness of
developments in travel industry’
Kuwait Oil Company opens 9th travel & tourism exhibition
By Saif AlAzemi
Arab Times Staff
Lulwa Al Shamlan acknowledges the audience applause, and (inset), Lulwa in action.
Lulwa Al Shamlan performs in Carnegie Hall
Lulwa is a well-known performer in Kuwait
and at the age of twelve has already
achieved a significant repertoire as a
pianist. This includes numerous competitions and performances in the United
Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany,
Azerbaijan, and most recently New York.
She consistently represents herself to a
high standard by placing in first or second
place in concerts both inside and outside of
Kuwait.
She currently attends Wells Music
School in the UK as a music specialist in
piano. This has allowed her to continue
branching out in new directions and to
strive towards greater goals. This enabled
her to participate in the American
International Competition of Romantic
Music. Out of the hundreds of competitors
she won second place and performed in
the winners’ concert in Carnegie Hall in
New York this past March. This is regarded
as a great highlight for any performer’s
career no matter their age. It is truly an
experience to be able to share the same
stage where Frank Sinatra performed during his early career as well as countless
other world-renowned artists.
This success is a big moment for Lulwa,
Kuwait, and LOYAC who continued nurturing her talent since she was 9 years old,
and made it possible to continue developing Lulwa’s talent and musical growth.
Lulwa is sponsored by Sabah Al-Ahmad
Center for Giftedness and Creativity, who
always sponsor LOYAC’s talents.
Program to begin with hoisting of National Flag
Bangladesh Embassy to observe
Historic Mujib Nagar Day April 17
KUWAIT CITY, April 16: Bangladesh
Embassy along with the Bangladesh community in Kuwait is going to observe the
Historic Mujib Rahman Nagar Day 2014
with due enthusiasm and fervor at the
Chancery on April 17, 2014. On this day in
1971 the government of Bangladesh was
formed where the Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was
declared as the First President of the
People’s Republic of Bangladesh. The initiative was taken to run the interim government
and to carry out the Liberation War in a more
organized way, to run the administration and
to diplomatically and legally negotiate for
financial recognition for the independence of
Bangladesh in 1971.
The program of the day will begin at 8:30 am
with hoisting of the National Flag at full mast by
HE the Ambassador Major General Mohammad
Ashab Uddin, ndc, psc in presence of the
Embassy officials, Commander and officials of
the Bangladesh Military Contingent (BMC) to
Kuwait, officials of Bangladesh Biman and
members of Bangladesh community.
The other events of the day will begin at
4:40 pm at the Multi-purpose Hall of the
Chancery. The program will include the
recitation from the Holy Quran, Dua and
Munajat, Observance of Silence, Reading out
of Messages of Hon’ble President of the
Republic of Bangladesh, Hon’ble Prime
Minister and Foreign Hon’ble Minister of the
Government of the People’s Republic of
Bangladesh, discussion on the significance
of the day, documentary film show, and
speech of the Ambassador of Bangladesh to
Kuwait.
The program will be attended by Bangladesh
community from all walks of lives including
community leaders, professionals, freedom
fighters, leaders of cultural and social organizations and so on. The discussion meeting will
highlight the significance of the Historic Mujib
Nagar Day in the context or Liberation War of
Bangladesh in 1971. The Mujib Nagar government was formed with the Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Rahman as the
president of the Republic to lead the Liberation
War in a more organized and systematic way.
Due to formation of the government the
Liberation War got anormous pace which hastened the victory of Bangladesh on Dec 16,
1971.
News in Brief
Congratulations sent: His Highness
the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber
Al-Sabah sent a congratulatory cable on
Wednesday to Queen Margrethe II of
Denmark on her country’s National Day.
His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and
His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh
Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah also
sent similar cables to Queen Margrethe.
(KUNA)
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GCC, EU discuss int’l issues: Head of
GCC Mission in Brussels Ambassador Amal
Al-Hamad of Kuwait discussed latest developments in negotiations between P5+1 with
Iran over its nuclear programme with
Deputy Secretary General of the EU foreign
service, EEAS, Helga Schmid.
According to a press release sent by the
Embassy of Kuwait in Brussels, the two officials also discussed how to boost cooperation between the EU and the GCC and
exchanged views on regional and international developments. The meeting was also
attended by GCC ambassadors to Belgium.
(KUNA)
KUWAIT CITY, April 16:
Kuwait Oil Company
(KOC) unveiled its ninth
travel and tourism exhibition for two days on the
floors of the KOC tent in
Al-Ahmadi and under the
patronage
of
Ismail
Abdulla the Deputy CEO
of Corporate Services.
More than 50 companies from
the tourism industry are participating in the exhibition and an estimated of 1,500 visitors attended
the event on its first day, according
to Hamza Al-Muzaini from the
Community Services team at
KOC.
Participating travel companies handed offers and queries
to the visitors that are both
KOC employees and from the
public.
Mesaed Al-Sehali Chief Admin
Officer of Community Services
Team at KOC talked to Arab
Times about the exhibition. “The
exhibition is organized for the benefit of KOC employees and families.” Al-Sehali said.
Al-Sehali added that participating travel companies are offering
special and custom-made packages formulated to visitors of the
exhibition and on the spot.
The exhibition offers valuable
prizes that varied from travel tickets to hotel accommodations for
the attendees.
Furthermore,
Al-Sehali
explained that KOC aims with this
collaboration with travel compa-
Photo by Anwar Daifallah
The exhibition is being inaugurated.
nies from all over the world to benefit its employees through special
rates and offers secured to them,
and additionally, to increasing
cooperation with travel companies
to get better rates for group missions abroad that are organized by
KOC.
Al-Sehali noted, “This is the
first time the exhibition opens its
doors to the public for as it used to
be exclusive for KOC employees,” Al-Sehali explained,” KOC
tries by this move to expand the
benefit sought by the exhibition to
include the community as a
whole.”
He added that KOC aims to raise
awareness of the developments in
the travel industry around the
world and to inform the public of
the special offers by travel compa-
nies.
Ali El-Husseini the General
Manager of Ritz Travel and
Tourism highlighted the improvements of the exhibition in term of
size compared to last year’s version.
“This time it is more efficient,
and it’s a lot bigger and its very
impressive for us and our organization and it has been an annual
thing for us and it will be for
years to come,” said AlHusseini.
Khaled Al-Awadi an employee
of KOC and a visitor of the exhibition expressed his appreciation to
the efforts Kuwait Oil Company is
putting to serve the employees and
the community.
“This exhibition helps the
employees of KOC to get better
promotions and deals and it isn’t
exclusively in the benefit of the
employees but also benefits the
businesses participating in the
event,” Al-Awadi said.
Al-Awadi added, “KOC made
sure that the community as whole
gets to benefit from the exhibtion.”
Al-Awadi explained, “KOC is not
only helping the employees but its
making sure to involve the community and this is what is expected from KOC.”
Al-Sehali concluded that the
travel and tourism exhibition has
been annual event for nine years
that flourished and expanded since
its first version and KOC has been
always open to hear from its
employees and the community to
make any improvements in all levels and aspects.

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