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Saudi- CITC Only police can probe online offenses
(MENAFN - Arab News) Many citizens are still unaware that only the police are authorized to receive reports on crimes related to online harassment, abuse and character assassination."We need to emphasize that the police are the sole authority sanctioned to deal with crimes of this nature," Sultan ...
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Saudi- AGFUNDs support for anti-poverty drive lauded
(MENAFN - Arab News) The Executive Director of Micro Credit Summit Campaign (MSC), Larry Reid, has underscored the initiatives of the Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) with special reference to establish banks for the poor in the region, describing it as "the signs featured anti-poverty" ...
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Saudi- Smoking employees may be fined
(MENAFN - Arab News) The Control and Investigation Board has reaffirmed its commitment toward imposing penalties on employees who fail to uphold the ban on smoking in public and governmental institutions. These penalties include two warnings and then a deduction of a violator's salaries. According ...
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Gulf women drivers reject the idea of removing veil
(MENAFN - Arab News) A proposal to make it illegal to drive vehicles in the Gulf States while wearing the veil could hamper efforts by Saudi women to drive cars in the Kingdom. The Directors General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in its 13th meeting on Monday in Jeddah, considered the draft from ...
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Saudi- Apartment rents skyrocket by 30 this year
(MENAFN - Arab News) In a surprising move, rent prices for apartments and villas shot up by 30 percent, according to real estate experts. Experts say the rent hikes were due to rising costs of building and renovation, and the increase in the wages of workers in the construction and management of ...
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Capital Intelligence affirms ratings of Samba Financial Group
Capital Intelligence (CI), the international credit rating agency, today announced that it has affirmed the ratings of Samba Financial Group (SAMBA), based in Riyadh, Saudi ...
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Siemens awarded contracts worth around EUR200m by Saudi Electricity Company
Siemens, the global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering operating in the energy, infrastructure, industry and healthcare sectors, has been awarded two contracts valued at approximately EUR200m (SAR1bn) by Saudi Electricity Company ...
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Palm Beach County to sell Mecca Farms for $26M
Palm Beach County commissioners tentatively approved on Tuesday the sale of Mecca Farms to the South Florida Water Management District for $26 million. The Palm Beach Post reports that the 1,900-acre citrus grove was purchased for $60 million by the county with the hopes of luring The Scripps Research Institute, which eventually opened a facility to the east in Jupiter. The water management ...
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Awal organizes regional workshops specializing in cloud computing and managed services
Awal, the leading IT services provider, organized a serious of specialized workshops regionally across the Kingdom of Saudi in the three main cities Riyadh and Khobar and ...
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Saudi Energy 2013 to open Sunday with over 200 local foreign energy companies attending
Saudi Energy 2013 - The 16th International Trade Exhibition for Electricity Power Generation, Alternative Energy, Water Technology, Lighting & HVAC, will open on Sunday, May 26, with over 200 local and foreign energy companies confirming their ...
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STC provides FTTH services to King Saud University
STC has signed a cooperation agreement with king Saud University 'KSU' according to which complete smart telecom services are provided to the ...
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Bahra Cables opens new plant for manufacturing of PVC conduits and fittings BC Conduit
Bahra Cables Co, a subsidiary of Construction Products Holding Company (CPC), opens new plant for manufacturing of PVC conduits and fittings for electrical use with an annual production capacity of 18,000 tons of PVC conduits, fittings and couplings of different ...
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Rent up 30 in Saudi Arabia
It is expected that the rents of apartments in the south and east of Jeddah to drop In a surprising move, rent prices for apartments and villas shot up by 30 percent, according to real estate experts.Experts say the rent hikes were due to rising costs of building and renovation, and the increase in the wages of workers in the construction and management of building. In Jeddah, for example, it is ...
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I didnt do it to cause a movement says Saudi woman who conquered Everest
Raha Moharrak, the first woman from Saudi Arabia to climb Mount Everest, talks to reporters in Kathmandu. 'It was very personal thing. I didn't do it to cause a movement,' she ...
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Video First Saudi woman climbs Mount Everest
Twenty-five-year-old Raha Moharrak becomes the first Saudi woman to climb Mount Everest and also the youngest Arab to make it to the top the world's highest mountain. Sarah Sheffer ...
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Saudi Arabia deports 200000 workers in three months
Asian laborers work at a flyover construction site in eastern Riyadh. Saudi Arabia gave illegal foreign workers a three-month grace period to legalize their status. (AFP/Getty Images - for illustrative purposes ...
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Saudi’s ‘White Ribbon Campaign’ Conservatives Lash Out
Samar Fatany announced that they would be starting a local White Ribbon campaign. Since then, bringing them down has become the personal mission of many ultra-conservative sheikhs. The White Ribbon campaign originally was started in Canada as a reaction to a massacre committed ...
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Drake and Scull International awarded SAR1.7bn contract to complete Lamar Towers in Jeddah
Drake & Scull Construction (DSC) the General Contracting Arm of Drake & Scull International PJSC (DSI), a regional market leader in the integrated design, engineering and construction disciplines of General Contracting, Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP), Water and Power, Rail and Oil and Gas, has announced that it has been awarded a SAR1.725bn contract by Lamar Investment and ...
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Saudi oil output is likely to be lower than its average Kingdom needs fiscal reforms
The IMF said a drop in oil output and lower crude prices would likely result in smaller fiscal surpluses in 2013. Saudi economic growth will slow to 4.4 percent in 2013 from 6.8 percent last year due to an expected fall in oil production, and cuts in government spending, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday."Overall GDP growth is expected at 4.4 percentbecause oil output is ...
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Saudi Arabia Warns Twitter Users of Impending Damnation
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions," warns the famed twelth-century proverb. A modern-day addendum to that truism might read, "in 140 characters or less" -- at least in Saudi Arabia. That's because the head of the kingdom's religious police has condemned anyone who uses social media, especially Twitter, of having "lost this world and his ...
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Power giant Siemens wins $266m Saudi deals
The second signing is for a turnkey project to build the Al-Kharj 2 380 kV substation. Under the contract, Siemens will supply all key components and will also build the ...
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Saudi steel demand rising at frenetic pace
Saudi Arabia's steel industry is set to undergo double-digit growth over the next five years fuelled by demand from infrastructure projects, according to a new survey. The Saudi Arabia Steel Industry Forecast 2017 report by research firm RNCOS estimates that the sector will grow at a compound rate of 11.7% between 2013-17. "The construction sector in the country is considered as the ...
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Ten more arrested in Iranian espionage case
An official spokesman from the Saudi government has confirmed the arrest of 10 people involved in an Iranian espionage cell who were allegedly associated with the same spy network that was dismantled in March of this year by Saudi security officials. A security spokesman confirmed that the latest cell had eight Saudis, one Lebanese and one Turkish national. "Initial investigations carried ...
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Women Empowerment in Saudi Arabia Faces Standstill Nation Divided on Stadium Access
After it had allowed its girls to engage in sports in their private schools, oil-rich nation Saudi Arabia is now divided whether to extend such empowerment privilege to allow its women to watch sports in a stadium due to be completed in 2014. Ahmed Eid, President of the Saudi Football Federation, ...
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Saudi Arabia accredits 10 mega-recruitment agencies
Saudi Arabian labor officials have accredited 10 "mega" recruitment agencies that can recruit and deploy overseas Filipino workers to Saudi Arabia "in bulk," the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said on Tuesday. The POEA said these recruitment agencies can deploy foreign ...
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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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