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Crown Prince receives message from Indian Vice President
The message was delivered to the Crown Prince during an audience with Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid. | | A A Arab News Last Update 25 May 2013 1:21 pm Jeddah: Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense, received a message from the Vice President ...
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New Saudi labour law to impact only illegal Indian blue-collar workers
nitaqat law , will only impact illegal blue-collar workers saying that the kingdom's actions will only encourage legally employed people to work in the country. Following his meeting with his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid, Prince Saud Al Faisal said what Saudi Arabia was doing is in the interest of Indian workers. "It is in their interest because without valid papers, these ...
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Saudis Nitaqat law Procedures implemented in Indian workers interest says Finance Minister Al-Faisal
Jeddah: In a bid to allay India's concerns over the controversial 'Nitaqat' labour law, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal today said "procedures" are being taken in the "best interest of Indian workers".The Nitaqat law and the ongoing drive to identify workers who are overstaying in the Arab Kingdom was one of the main areas of focus ...
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Riyal-dollar peg serves interests of Kingdom
The Saudi riyal peg to the US dollar will continue as it serves the national economic interest of the Kingdom as well as of those which have chosen to keep the peg like Qatar and others in the GCC, says a senior Riyadh-based economist. "Those that keep the peg, like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, benefit ...
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The machiavelian threefold game of the neoconservatives
Who are the neoconservatives? The neoconservative movement, which is generally perceived as a radical (rather than "conservative") Republican right, is, in reality, an intellectual movement born in the late 1960s in the pages of the monthly magazine Commentary, a media arm of the American Jewish ...
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Joyful Noise in Silent Barn an Alt-Arts Mecca in Brooklyn
The Silent Barn, which its Twitter page calls an "auto-didactic cooperative performance space," does attract the weird and the surprising: noise bands, 'zine librarians, urban agriculturists, piata sculptors, jellyfish experts, makers of digital art. But five months after taking over the former offices of George Cho Contractors and establishing itself in the mainstream and ...
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Saudi Foreign Minister calls Irans nuclear program danger to regions security
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has warned against the danger of Iran's nuclear program to the region's security and said Iran should not threaten its neighbours since countries in the region harbour no ill-intentions to the Islamic Republic. "We stress the danger of the Iranian nuclear program to the security of the whole region," Prince ...
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Assad should not have role in Syria talks Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal attends an emergency meeting with Arab League foreign ministers, at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, April 26, 2012. (AFP PHOTO/KHALED ...
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Sunni unity essential for Lebanon Saudi mission
Ali Assiri hosted for dinner caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam, former prime ministers Omar Karami, Salim Hoss and Fouad Siniora along with caretaker Youth and Sports Minister Faisal Karami."Their excellencies were just as always advocates of moderation, openness, dialogue and principles on which Lebanon is based," said the statement."At ...
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Saudis in London advised to st...
Saudi embassy to the United Kingdom asked all Saudi citizens to take caution and stay away of the suspicious places and gatherings. In a statement issued by the embassy Friday, 'Due to the negative repercussions following the heinous crime committed in Woolwich, south-east London, on Wednesday and ...
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ABU DHABI May 25th 2013 - Sudanese President Omar Hassan el-Bashirhas expressed
The remarks came when el-Bashir received the UAE delegation, led by Abdullah Al Muwaiji, member of the Federation of United Arab Emirates Chambers of Commerce & Industry and Chairman of the Ajman Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in the presence of a number of members of UAE Federation. He said ...
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Patenting Disease Saudi Authorities ‘Must Pay To Protect Citizens’
Confronted by a new disease that is killing it citizens, the government of Saudi Arabia is complaining that a Dutch laboratory has patented the MERS-nCoV virus. As a result, anyone who wishes to reproduce the virus -- even for the purpose of trying to find a way to kill or control it -- must pay license fees to that lab. This, the Saudi government is telling the World Health Organization, is ...
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GCC anniversary marked amid hope for Gulf union
Bahrainis praise achievements, but stress need to address pending issues Manama: Bahrainis are marking the 32nd anniversary of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) with hopes for greater achievements and calls for prompter Gulf unity. The Council, set up on May 25, 1981 in Abu Dhabi, brought together ...
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Internet use up 16 in Saudi
(MENAFN - Arab News) Internet usage has increased by 16 percent in the Kingdom, with a 10 percent growth in the number of providers expected by the end of this year.Internet providers said that modern and smart technologies are helping to increase Internet use as services are available in packages ...
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Saudi- Govt to spend $ 66 bn on water projects over 10 years
(MENAFN - Arab News) The European inventor, writer and painter Leonardo da Vinci once said: "Water is the driving force of all nature." This statement is all the more relevant in Saudi Arabia with its limited supply and arid environment.The Saudi government has recognized the importance of water ...
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Saudi- Walls to be built around rail tracks at holy sites
(MENAFN - Arab News) Work is now under way to build a wall encircling the train tracks connecting the holy sites at Makkah, an official of the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs has said.Deputy Minister Habeeb Zayn Al-Abideen said the ministry called for bids from companies for the maintenance ...
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Riyadh Governor and Vice Governor Receive President of Saudi Publishers Association
SPA -- Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh region, and Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Vice Governor of Riyadh region, received separately here today President of Saudi Publishers Association Ahmed Bin Fahd Al-Hamdan and the accompanying delegation. During the ...
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Saudi banks assets gain SR38bn in Q1
The combined assets of Saudi Arabias banks swelled by nearly SR38 billion (Dh37.7 billion) in the first quarter of 2013 to maintain their position as having the second largest financial base in the Middle East after UAE banks. Official data also showed Saudi Arabias banks continued to open up their ...
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JK govt to unveil tourism package Minister
SRINAGAR: government plans to unveil a comprehensive tourism package in an effort to increase the footfall of foreign visitors to the state this season. "A comprehensive tourism package will be unveiled by the Government to organise short summer and winter tours for overseas visitors," Minister of ...
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Saudi- SAMAs net foreign assets surge to SR 2.506 trillion
(MENAFN - Arab News) The Kingdom's M3 money supply growth accelerated to 14.1 percent year-on-year at the end of April, the fastest rate since October 2011, from 12.3 percent in the previous month, data from the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency showed.Bank lending to the private sector rose 16.0 ...
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Saudi- Insurance firms win weekly race
(MENAFN - Arab News) Saudi stocks spent the entire last week with impressive gains. The Tadawul All-Share Index (TASI) reflecting an upward march throughout the week ended in the green territory at 7,363.13 points, up 215.7 points or 3.02 percent, from its previous weekend close at 7,147.42 ...
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New real estate fund from Saudi Fransi Capital
(MENAFN - Arab News) Saudi Fransi Capital has launched its new fund, the Saudi Fransi Real Estate Fund. The new fund seeks to achieve capital growth, by developing lands and real estate projects, along with the possibility of generating income stream by acquiring existing real estate in Saudi ...
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The spokesman of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in a statement in Jeddah
Reiterating the OIC's strong and unwavering position against all forms of terror including hatred, violence and intolerance based on religion and faith, the OIC spokesman said that the brutal and barbaric killing in Woolwich last night was a criminal and outrageous act by the individuals involved ...
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Saudi missing for 10 years found imprisoned in Iraq
(MENAFN - Arab News) The Human Rights Commission following up on the conditions of missing and imprisoned Saudis in Iraqi prisons announced that it found a Saudi national missing for 10 years.Mohammad Bin Abdullah bin Al Johari Al Huwiati was isolated in solitary confinement in the 52nd Crime ...
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The Energy sector delivers gas turbines and transformers to Saudi Arabia
The Energy Sector has been awarded two contracts valued at approximately EUR200 million by Saudi Electricity Company (SEC). The first contract includes the supply of five SGT6-2000E gas turbines, which will add 388 megawatts (MW) to the Rafha, Qurayyat and Arar areas, helping to address the Kingdom's rapidly rising power ...
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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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