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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 economic growth to slow down IMF
RIYADH. -- 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 yesterday. "Overall growth is expected at 4,4 percent. . . because oil output is likely to be ...
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Female Saudi Everest climbe...
The first woman from Saudi Arabia to scale Mount Everest says she doesn't intend to inspire a movement, but would be happy to change people's opinions of Saudi women and Saudi women's opinions of themselves. Raha Mobarak told reporters in Katmandu today that her next goal is to climb the highest ...
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Saudi Arabia bans Ritrodine
The registration of Ritrodine (Yutopar), which is used to stop premature labour, has been cancelled by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), Arab News has reported. The move came following the recommendation of the commission in charge of the registration of approved pharmaceutical companies and products, as the medication was found to have serious side effects including cardiac arrhythmias, ...
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Saudi Arabias Batterji Medical College ties up with Maastricht University
Saudi-based Batterji Medical College has signed a scientific cooperation and academic and research and training agreement with the Dutch Maastricht University, Arab News has reported. The agreement provides for curriculum development for the programme of medicine and clinical skills in the Batterji college. It includes training and exchanging of faculty members, in addition to the exchange and ...
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Modern Health Pharmaniagia ink SR600m JV pact
Saudi-based Modern Healthcare Solutions Co, a subsidiary of Modern Industrial Investment Group Holding (MIIGH), has said it has signed a cooperative partnership deal with Pharmaniagia, a majority-owned Malaysian government pharmaceuticals and medical resources, Arab News has reported. The 50-50 joint venture company, Modern-Pharma Ltd, would design, establish and operate a number of complexes ...
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Deal signed for Jeddah Staybridge suites facility
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has inked an agreement with Dyafah Al Mutahida LLC to open a 200-key property in Jeddah; its first Staybridge Suites extended-stay property in Saudi Arabia. The agreement to develop the Staybridge Suites in Jeddah forms a key part of IHG’s strategy to expand all its brands in the city, which the hotel group says has been identified as "a primary ...
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SR 1 bn Saudi Electricity contracts for...
Siemens, a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering operating in the energy, infrastructure, industry and health care sectors, has been awarded two contracts worth around SR 1 billion by Saudi Electricity Company (SEC). The first contract includes the supply of five SGT6-2000E ...
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Saudi debates letting women int...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is debating whether to allow access to women in sports stadiums after an official backed the idea, triggering a storm in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom where female sports are severely restricted. "Women would be authorised in the stadiums soon," said Saudi Football ...
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Saudis arrest more suspects in Iranian espionage case
AFPRIYADH--Saudi authorities have arrested 10 more suspects in an alleged Iranian spy ring unveiled two months ago, an interior ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. The eight Saudis, a Lebanese and a Turk bring the number of people arrested to 28, the official SPA news agency quoted the spokesman as ...
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IMF says Saudi outlook positi...
London, Asharq Al-Awsat--The International Monetary Fund (IMF) gave Saudi Arabia's economy a clean bill of health in its latest report on the kingdom's economic affairs this week, saying that its economic outlook is "positive." The organization, which monitors economic and financial trends within ...
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Saudi Arabia Five beheaded crucified amid disturbing rise in execution Amnesty
(Source: Amnesty International) Saudi Arabia must halt a "disturbing" rise in death penalty usage that has resulted in at least 47 state killings in the country already this year, Amnesty International urged after six more people were executed today. Five Yemeni men were beheaded and "crucified" ...
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10 alleged Iranian spies arrested in Saudi
Saudi security forces (AFP) Saudi Arabia's interior minister Major General Mansour Al Turki released a statement of Tuesday announcing that 10 members of an alleged Iranian spy ring had ...
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IMF sees Saudi economic decline over expected drop in oil output
RIYADH: 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, ...
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Addl staff to legalise status of expatriates in Saudi Arabia
The Bangladesh Consulate in Jeddah is experiencing an unprecedented influx of nationals who are seeking the mission's consular services to legalize their status or be repatriated back home. A large stretch of Makkah Road near the consulate was jammed in the early hours of yesterday morning. The ...
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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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