Zain launches new pay & win draw for postpaid customers
Exciting promotional campaign
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KUWAIT CITY, Dec 2: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, announced the launch of a new draw promotion that will see a weekly postpaid winner of four valuable prizes when paying their bills using Zain’s website or app as well as a grand prize at the final draw at the end of January.
Zain launched this exciting promotional campaign to reinforce its leadership position and its pledge in offering the best products and services to meet its customers’ personal and professional telecommunications needs, who are considered Kuwait’s biggest family of subscribers.
The draw, held weekly until Jan 22, 2017, will see one weekly winner of four valuable prizes, including iPhone 7, Touch Hotspot LTE-A with free 1.5 TB Prepaid Internet line valid for 3 months, and an entertainment device. The grand prize winner, announced at the end of the campaign, will receive iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, Touch Hotspot LTE-A with free 1.5 TB Prepaid Internet line valid for 3 months, and a PlayStation 4 (1 TB).
Postpaid customers will get one chance to enter the weekly draws as well as the final draw for every KD 1 paid through Zain’s digital channels, including the company’s website (pay.kw.zain.com) and Zain’s app available for iOS and Android.
Today’s announcement is a testament of Zain’s tireless efforts in rewarding its customer base, the largest in the country. The campaign further demonstrates Zain’s pivotal role in Kuwait’s telecom sector, sparing no efforts in introducing exceptional offerings for technology and smartphone enthusiasts.
ABU DHABI, Dec 2, (AFP): Representatives from dozens of countries began a meeting in Abu Dhabi on Friday to discuss the creation of a $100-million fund to protect and restore heritage sites threatened by extremism and conflict.
The two-day conference reflects growing international alarm over the destruction of ancient artefacts by Islamic State group jihadists using sledgehammers, bulldozers and explosives.
It opened with calls by its Emirati, French and UN initiators for joint action to safeguard cultural treasures in danger.
“To succeed, we need to work together... united for heritage,” UNESCO director Irina Bokova told participants.
Protecting heritage “is inseparable from protecting human life”, she said, describing its deliberate destruction as a “war crime”.
The chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, Mohamed al-Mubarak, expressed optimism that international initiative would “help change the course of history”.
On the eve of the meeting, five Nobel prize winners launched an appeal for urgent action to safeguard world heritage sites, pointing to the irreparable damage wreaked in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Mali.
“Part of our history has been lost forever, with the goal of fanaticism being to undermine our hope for the future,” said the statement from Aung San Suu Kyi, Kofi Annan, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Orhan Pamuk and Mario Vargas Llosa.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization says 55 out of a total of 1,052 heritage sites around the world are listed as “World Heritage in Danger.”
They include the Crac des Chevaliers castle and the ruins of Palmyra in Syria, the archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan, the Old City of Sanaa in Yemen, and Timbuktu in Mali.
The conference aims to create “a
UAE’s Chairman of Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, Mohamad Khalifa al-Mubarak, speaks during the opening ceremony of a conference gathering officials and experts from around the world to discuss forming a
global alliance to protect endangered heritage sites on Dec 2, in Abu Dhabi. (AFP)
broad coalition of partners connecting the dots between the security, humanitarian and cultural issues with so many organisations and governments” taking part, said Bokova.
Delegates from around 40 countries, including more than a dozen heads of state or government, among them several Gulf monarchs, are attending the gathering, based on an initiative led by France and the United Arab Emirates.
French President Francois Hollande and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, whose countries will be key contributors to the fund, will make closing speeches on Saturday.
Former French culture minister Jack Lang, who heads the Paris-based Institut du Monde Arabe, said the conference “will launch concrete action” such as the creation of a fund to help cover the cost of transporting, safeguarding and restoring affected monuments -- including using 3D reconstruction.
France will contribute $30 million to the fund, Lang has said.
It will be formed as an “independent legal entity”, according to a preparatory document that says it will likely be established in Geneva from 2017. The conference also aims to establish “refuge zones” around the globe for endangered works of art, according to organisers.
The proposed partnership would include governments, public institutions, private groups, non-governmental organisations and experts.
“UNESCO will play a critical role to guide and to advise and to monitor where exactly the needs are the most,” Bokova told AFP, adding that the conference was a “good start”.
A French official described the initiative as the “cultural counterpart” of the international military and political war on terrorism.
Hollande, who has called for “asylum rights for artefacts”, last month announced that a safekeeping facility is to open in northern France in 2019.
In addition to housing the Louvre Museum’s stored collection, it could also be a refuge for endangered artworks. France is expected to make the proposal during the Abu Dhabi conference. The Louvre Abu Dhabi, whose delayed opening is now expected in 2017, “could also become a refuge zone” for threatened artefacts, a French official said.
Louvre Museum director Jean-Luc Martinez warned during a panel discussion that extremists are exploiting media as a propaganda tool for their “deliberate destruction of heritage”.
Hollande will visit the Louvre Abu Dhabi on Saturday as well as a military airbase near the Emirati capital from which French warplanes have been flying missions targeting jihadists in Iraq and Syria.