Sources: The Middle East Times, Kuwait Times, and Kuwait public holidays. Last Sunday, Kuwait's Cabinet issued an administrative decision to officially change the state's weekends from Thursday and Friday to Friday and Saturday, beginning on September 1st, 2007. The private sector in is not bound to follow the government, but banks and most of the oil sector already apply a Friday-Saturday weekend to be more in line with international markets, which close Saturday-Sunday.Analysis: Recall from our post of May 2006, that The UAE, Bahrain and Qatar made the same change last year, also on September 1st, leaving only 2 members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, namely Saudi Arabia and Oman, that still observe Thursday and Friday weekends.
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