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Saudi mobile charges among the highest worldwide
Lowering mobile phone rates in the kingdom will benefit not only citizens and resident but pilgrims as well, say consumer advocates. | | A A RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Last Update 19 May 2013 2:17 am Saudi mobile call charges are among the highest in the world, at around 35 halalas a minute compared to ...
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Consumer Lending in Saudi Arabia - New Study Released
- Fast Market Research recommends "Consumer Lending in Saudi Arabia" from Euromonitor International, now available Overall, consumer lending saw a good current value performance during the review period in outstanding balance and gross lending terms. However, there was considerable fluctuation in ...
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WHO calls for urgent search of coronavirus source warns Saudi it may be spreading
FILE - This undated file image released by the British Health Protection Agency shows an electron microscope image of a coronavirus, part of a family of viruses that cause ailments including the common cold and SARS, which was first identified last year in the Middle ...
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Meticulous move by Saudia Cargo
Saudia Cargo transports huge stocks of juvenile fish from Larnaca to Tabuk. | | A A JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Last Update 19 May 2013 12:43 am Saudi Airlines Cargo has successfully transported 630,000 juvenile sea bream fish from Larnaca (Cyprus) to Tabuk (Saudi Arabia). The operation, undertaken on ...
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Schneider hosts energy efficiency...
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy efficiency, said its flagship annual event 'Xperience Efficiency' was being be held in three cities across Saudi Arabia to showcase the company's wide-ranging portfolio of integrated solutions and applications across several industry segments ...
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Izdehar provides opportunity to pitch novel SME ideas
JEDDAH -- The pitch for investment competition, a highlight of Izdehar SME to be held May 19-21, at the Jeddah Hilton Hotel, under the aegis of Prince Mishaal bin Majed, has attracted huge interest from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and budding entrepreneurs. "As a groundbreaking initiative, ...
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Tejar Dubai hosts inaugural event to support SMEs
Fatma Al-Mulla, a young Emirati graphic designer, at Tejar Dubai. | | A A DUBAI: LAMA ALSHETHRY Last Update 19 May 2013 12:37 am Tejar Dubai's first event to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) was held on Thursday, with the participation of local talents who exhibited their skills in ...
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Saudis NWC planning JVs with private firms by 2015
Saudi Arabia's National Water Co (NWC) is planning to form joint ventures with private sector partners to deliver various water and sewage services in the kingdom's major cities, Saudi Gazette has reported. "The proposed joint venture will provide national operation and maintenance (O&M), treated sewage effluent (TSE) services, TSE district cooling and O&M services for ...
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Overseas voting turnout very low
In Kuwait, a major destination of overseas Filipino workers, the voter turnout was barely eight percent of some 40,000 registered voters, according to embassy officials there. In the United States, another? big voting block, the turnout was placed at only 11 percent. Reports said only 13,976 out ...
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Saudi Arabia has another case of new coronavirus WHO
LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has reported another case of infection in a concentrated outbreak of a new strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year and spread into Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on ...
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Rotana film fest to promote Saudi cinema
Rotana movies channel is starting the second Saudi Film Festival from today for eight weeks under the supervision of film directors Mamdouh Salem and Hana Al-Umair, and broadcaster Mujahid Omari. "In the first show of the festival three short films and a documentary will be shown. The films have ...
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Exit stamps from Tuesday
JEDDAH -- The Deportation Office in Jeddah will issue exit stamps to illegal foreigners wishing to leave the Kingdom by taking advantage of the grace period announced by the Saudi authorities after they are fingerprinted on Tuesdays and Wednesdays starting May 21, according to diplomatic sources. In ...
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5 years in jail for abusing parents
JEDDAH -- A Jeddah court has sentenced a young man to five years in prison and 3,000 lashes after he admitted to hitting his mother and locking his father inside a room. He also kicked his mother out of the house and threatened to beat his sisters. The Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution ...
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Futuristic metro station for Riyadh
An artist's impression of Riyadh's new metro station. - Photo courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects RIYADH - Zaha Hadid Architects are designing a new metro station in Riyadh which has a unique, undulating facade that mimics the daily flow of traffic of the capital's 5 million residents. The King Abdullah ...
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Federal agents arrested a Saudi Arabian traveler who arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with a pressure cooker a key component used in the Boston Marathon bombings last month.
Detroit - Federal agents arrested a Saudi Arabian traveler who arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with a pressure cooker, a key component used in the Boston Marathon bombings last month.Hussain Al Kwawahir appeared for a brief hearing at 1 p.m. in federal court on charges he allegedly used an altered passport and lied to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure ...
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Deputy Governor of Riyadh Region Attends Reception Party Held by Norways Embassy
SPA -- Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Governor of Riyadh Region, attended here today evening a reception party held by NorwayEUR(TM)s Embassy to mark its country's national day. Upon his arrival at the venue, Prince Turki was received by the Norwegian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi ...
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OICs Mali meeting to be held in Jeddah
Mali Contact Group of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation set to convene on Monday ANKARA - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is set to host a ministerial meeting of its Mali Contact Group in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah on Monday. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will represent Turkey at the meeting. In a written statement released on Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry ...
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Saudi Arabia To Host 30th Meeting of GCC Traffic Departments Chiefs on Monday
SPA -- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will host the 30th meeting of the general directors of GCC traffic departments, scheduled for Monday 20 May, in Jeddah. The 3-day meeting will discuss ways of strengthening security and traffic cooperation among GCC member States. -- SPA 21:23 LOCAL TIME 18:23 ...
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First Saudi woman to climb Everest reaches peak
A 25-year-old climber who this weekend become the first Saudi woman to scale Mount Everest said she hopes her accomplishment inspires others. Raha Moharrak was among a four-member team of climbers from the Middle East that reached the summit of Mount Everest. She has said she hoped the climb would "inspire someone else to be the second," CNN reported. The university graduate made ...
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Money Laundering Allegations Emerge against Two Saudi Princes FARS News Agency
(FARS News Agency Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) According to contested allegations in court documents obtained by the Guardian and Financial Times, a brother and nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz are embroiled in litigation with Jordanian businessman Faisal Almhairat over ...
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Saudi woman reaches top of M...
A Saudi woman has broken a world record by reaching the summit of Mount Everest. She not only became the first Saudi woman to to reach this peak, but also the youngest Arab to ever make it to the top of Mount Everest. 25-year-old Raha Moharrak managed to complete this mission after persuading her ...
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US shale boom to send shockwaves in global oil trade
The world has changed -- and so has the global energy dynamics. The shale gas and tight oil revolution -- unleashed in the northern hemisphere of the world and which has the potential to spread to the far flung corners of the world too -- brings to fore a number of geopolitical issues. With North ...
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Mayor of Sanaa Saudi Ambassador Inspect Site of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Medical
SPA -- Abdulqader Ali Hilal, Mayor of Sana'a City, Ali Al-Hamdan, Saudi ambassador to Yemen, and Abdullah bin Abdulkareem Al-Shdokhee, head of Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) delegation, inspected here today the project site of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Medical City in the principality of ...
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Climber is First Saudi Woman to Scale Mount Everest
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Saudi Arabia more tolerant says woman film maker
View Photo AFP/Loic Venance - Saudi Arabia's first woman film maker Haifaa Al Mansour poses on May 18, 2013 during a photoshoot on the sidelines of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. Al-Mansour ...
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Saudi Arabia's massive infastructure drive
Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a major construction boom being implemented and supported by the national government in order to improve infrastructure and living standards in the largest economy in the Arab world.
It was recently announced by the director-general of the Saudi Industrial Property Authority (MODON), Tawfig Fawzan Alrabiah, that a new industrial city would be built in Taif in order to cope with growing demand for industrial land in Saudi Arabia. The Taif Industrial City will in fact be a ‘city within a city’ so to speak, but will measure 11 square miles in size and will function as a fully-fledged industrial city, providing all the infrastructure required in such zones. Read more
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