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Saudi Ambassador Holds Reception in Honor of Pakistani Officials
SPA -- Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Abdulaziz bin Ibrahim bin Saleh Al-Ghadeer held a reception at the Saudi House here today in honor of a number of Pakistani politicians, Senate members, scholars and media, cultural and social officials. During the reception, Ambassador Al-Ghadeer stressed the ...
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Call for major diabetes awareness drive
Riyadh, 1 hours, 31 minutes ago With almost 25 per cent of Saudi adults between the ages of 30-70 suffering with diabetes, there is an urgent need to raise public awareness through on-going training of healthcare professionals, said experts. Local medical experts from the field of diagnosis, ...
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Saudi Arabia warns against Irans nuclear programme
Saudi Arabia warns against Iran's nuclear programme General Sources Saturday 25th May, 2013 Oracle Financial Services rallies on strong response for OFS The promoters had received bids for 17.34 million shares against 4.43 million shares offered for ...
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Hackers attack Saudi official websites reports
Riyadh: Cyber hackers attacked several official Saudi websites on Saturday, posting an Algerian flag on their homepages that later vanished, local media reported.The website of the information ministry was among the hacked sites, according to state news broadcaster Al-Ekhbariya and newspapers.The ...
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Saudi Arabia to Participate in 2nd World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue in Azerbaijan
SPA -- The Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Abdullah Al-Jasser will participate in the 2nd World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday. The forum will focus on intercultural dialogue as a key element of tolerance and mutual understanding among ...
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Microsoft cleared of Xbox patent violation Saudi Press Agency
(Saudi Press Agency (Saudi Arabia) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) San Francisco, Rajab 14, 1434, May 24, 2013, SPA -- Days after it unveiled the newest version of its Xbox gaming system, Microsoft has been cleared of violating a wireless patent in current versions of the popular console. Motorola ...
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Saudi Foreign Minister Condemns Iranian Threats Against Bahrain
Manama-May-25(BNA)The Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs His Royal Highness Prince Saud Al-Faisal has today slammed Iranian threats against the Kingdom of Bahrain. He was speaking during a press conference held with his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. HRH Prince Al-Faisal urged Iran to promote peace and bolster relations with its neighbours instead of using the ...
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With Tank Deals Turkey Focuses on Arms Exports
Saudi Arabia may soon need to replace its fleet of French AMX-30 tanks, like the one shown here, and Turkey could be a player in the competition. (Dominique Faget/Agence France-Presse) Filed Under ANKARA -- Two Turkish companies are in separate talks with Saudi Arabia and Indonesia to co-produce and ...
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Arabtec secures $107m Riyadh hospital contract
Saudi Arabia 's burgeoning construction market. The contractor won the order to build the Aldara Hospital and Medical Centre in a joint venture with Greece's Terna. Arabtec has a 60 per cent share in the venture. "Saudi Arabia is rapidly developing its social and physical infrastructure, and we believe there is a strong opportunity for Arabtec to participate in construction ...
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WHO to help Saudi probe SARS virus before haj
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that it would help Saudi Arabia dig deeper into deadly outbreaks of a new SARS-like virus to draw up advice ahead of the annual haj pilgrimage. The UN agency, which is not currently recommending any restrictions on travel to the kingdom or ...
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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 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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