Muhammad Hadhadh
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – The Jeddah Governorate Prison has moved 2,000 inmates from 30-year-old cells to new cells that were built in line with high prison standards and requirements.
Dozens of prison officers participated in the transfer, which lasted over 10 h
2,000 inmates in Jeddah transferred to new cells
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Omani injured in Makkah cylinder blast
Badea Abu Al-Naja Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — An Omani national sustained severe burns in a gas cylinder explosion in Makkah Tuesday morning. The incident occurred in the kitchen of a first floor flat in a three-story building on Umm Al-Qura Road. The O
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RCCI to work on weekends to cope with expats' rush
RIYADH — The main office of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) will work on Thursdays and Fridays to cope with the rush of foreigners who need attestation services for documents to change their sponsorship and profession.
Working hours at the main office and branch offices have also been extended as part of pro
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Feminizing stores that sell women’s fashion has a price
Abdulrazaq Baleelah
Al-Madinah
TRADERS in women clothes and accessories are unanimous that ensuring their shops are staffed by women only by July 10 will raise prices by 30 to 50 percent. They justified this huge price rise by pointing to the fact that work in their shops can only be covered in two shifts, while women
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Man uses wife’s name to steal cars
Mishal Al-Otaibi Saudi Gazette RIYADH — Undercover agents in Riyadh arrested a Saudi man who was allegedly involved in stealing and selling 24 vehicles using his wife’s name. He would change the appearance of the car, replace its license plate with another, and even use a fak
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Official: One-fifth of firms fail to meet Nitaqat quotas
RIYADH — Twenty percent of private sector companies in Saudi Arabia are not meeting quotas for the employment of nationals, despite a program aimed at boosting recruitment that launched two years ago, a labor official was quoted as saying on Monday.
Nitaqat, a government-led Saudization program, was launched with the aim of in
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Indian envoy offers services of volunteers to ministries
RIYADH — Indian Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao met Deputy Minister for Interior Dr. Ahmed Al-Saleh here on Tuesday and discussed issues pertaining to the welfare of the Indian community in Saudi Arabia, according to a press release.
They discussed facilities for issuing immigration exit stamps for undocumented Indian nationals wishi
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For the love of music
Mariam Nihal Saudi Gazette Disturb The Balance Disturb The Balance (DTB) is a local alternative rock/metal band that was formed in 2008 in Saudi Arabia. It was originally discovered by lead vocalist, Moe Zein, and consists of five band members: drummer Bader Awad, bassist Saif Mufti, guitari
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Saudi students bring home scientific honors
Saudi students brought home eight awards from the Intel ISEF 2013 that took place in Phoenix, Arizona, recently. The winners were ninth to 12th graders who earned the right to compete at the Intel ISEF 2013 by winning a top slot at a local, regional, state or national science fair. This was the seventh consecutive year Saudi students participated in ISEF. The winner
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Prince Alwaleed receives Nick Baird
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), receives at his office in Riyadh Nick Baird, Chief Executive of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI). They discussed historic Saudi-British relations, as well as a number of regional and international issues. Baird was accompanied by British Ambassador Sir John Jenkins and Peter Broom, Deputy Director for Trade a
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Campaign launched on social media to put pressure on real estate sharks
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — Some social networking sites activists decided to launch a campaign they dubbed “No to purchasing real estate” in an attempt to exercise pressure on real estate businessmen and decision-makers.
The activists want decision-makers and businessmen to reduce prices that
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Small-time firms brave odds to lure clients, lenders say
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — A number of Saudi investors who have large-scale businesses that offer loans say their small-time counterparts are giving them tough competition in attracting customers.
The investors say the success of these companies can be attributed to the fact that they focus on financing s
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Suspect in Indonesian housewife’s murder held
Ibrahim Alawi
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — Police have arrested a Pakistani man in connection with the murder of an Indonesian woman in Jeddah’s Al-Nahda district.
The police received a report from the victim’s husband, a Turkish resident, saying that he found his wife strangled to death in
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Once bitten, twice shy
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — Um Essam is a Saudi woman from the south of the Kingdom. She was married when she was very young and soon became pregnant. After two years she had a son and when she was pregnant with her second child, a daughter, her husband abandoned her. She had to face her destiny alone. She was the victim
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Saudi Aramco engineers enrich knowledge at filtration forum
Sultan Al-Sughair Saudi Gazette AL-KHOBAR — A recent first-of-its-kind event has sought to enrich the technical knowledge of Saudi Aramco engineers and help them exchange experiences with international players in the oil and gas processing industry. Filtration is the mechanical or physi
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Italian envoy lauds KSA for promoting interfaith dialogue
Saeed Al-Khotani Saudi Gazette RIYADH — The new Italian Ambassador to the Kingdom praised the role the Kingdom plays in international relations, especially in the fields of dialogue and peace. Speaking to local newspapers at his residence here, Mario Boffo commended Saudi Arabia’s move to establi
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False complaints distract Nazaha
Khaled Al-Suleiman
Okaz
The deputy chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha), Abdullah Al-Abdul Qadir, recently described Saudi people as part of an ever-complaining society. He said the baseless complaints citizens were forwarding to Nazaha had obstructed it from doing its job properly.
Those who kept Na
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Racism in Saudi society
Qaiser Mutawie
Al-Madinah
A recent match between Al-Hilal club of Riyadh and Al-Ittihad of Jeddah caused a lot of controversy and friction in society. The cause of this controversy was the racist chants by some spectators. These chants reflected the ugly face of a phenomenon that has been spreading in our society and that should be sternl
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450 Indians fingerprinted in one day
JEDDAH — Some 450 Indians were fingerprinted on Tuesday, a day reserved for them at the Deportation Center (Tarheel) in Jeddah.
Fingerprinting is the final procedure for the exit of illegal workers opting to go home for good while taking advantage of the grace period to correct their status or leave the country, said a consulate source.
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Hajjar says Haj Ministry completed e-govt system
Saleh Fareed
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — The Ministry of Haj has completed its e-government system, called Yusr, allowing visitors to complete certain transactions online.
Yusr will restructure all of the ministry’s work and link it electronically with the other ministries, government sectors,
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