Saeed Al-Khotani
Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will attend the upcoming conference on humanitarian aid to the victims of the conflict in Syria.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon personally invited OIC Secretary
OIC states urged to attend Kuwait conference on Syria
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Parents demand more centers for autism care
Maha Al-Badrani
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
MADINAH — Parents of autistic children bemoan the lack of specialists to correctly diagnose their children and government-run facilities to care for them.
They say they are forced to enroll autistic children at private centers that burden them fi
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On double standards and the Saudi contradiction
Badriya Al-Bishr
Al-Hayat newspaper
It was noted that when using social media websites, appearing on TV talk shows or writing in newspapers, many Saudis would strongly defend their fanatical and extreme views under the pretext that Saudi society is somehow exceptional. Such people often use verses from the Qur’a
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What would a 90-year-old want from his child bride?
Abdullah Bajubair
Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper
I was shocked when I read the headline to a story that was published in Al-Hayat newspaper recently. The headline read “90-year-old man marries girl; human rights body calls for rescuing her”. The story was about a 90-year-old man from Jazan marrying a 15-year-old
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GOSI investing wisely to benefit nationals
General Organization of Social Insurance (GOSI) in its efforts to maximize the benefits to the nationals has stressed the importance of investments. It is investing in key sectors and has a local portfolio that includes 63 companies worth SR51.7 billion to provide benefits to the nationals. It is also modernizing with e-platform that links them t
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Ministry urged to act to curb rise in deaths on Taibah roads
Sami Al-Maghamsi
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
MADINAH – A number of Saudis in Madinah have blamed the Ministry of Transport as being responsible for not completing the dual carriageway projects linking Madinah with other regions, leading to bad roads and other factors which claim the lives of female teach
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Prince Alwaleed receives Othsman Hassan
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, receives Othsman Hassan, Secretary of State, Minister of Labor and Vocational Training and Advisor to the Prime Minister of Cambodia Samdeh Hun Sen. Hassan was accompanied by Khek Ravy, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, Minister of Labor and Vocational Training. The meeting was also attended by Ms. Shazman
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Dammam orphans forced to move to Hail
Saudi Gazette report
DAMMAM — The Ministry of Social Affairs is relocating the orphans living in its social education home in Dammam to Hail where they will be housed in a new building donated by a Saudi businessman, local daily Al-Watan reported.
The sources said the ministry resorted to the
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Who killed the girl student in Taif?
Hamoud Abu Talib
Okaz newspaper
We do not wish for our creative citizens such as poets, writers, men of letters, thinkers and intellectuals to be treated on equal footing as their counterparts in the West or even in certain Arab countries where they are greatly honored. We are not asking that they be treated like the
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Sin of ignoring Saudi men of letters
Hamoud Abu Talib
Okaz newspaper
We do not wish for our creative citizens such as poets, writers, men of letters, thinkers and intellectuals to be treated on equal footing as their counterparts in the West or even in certain Arab countries where they are greatly honored. We are not asking that they be treated like the
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Families of swapped boys evicted
Saudi Gazette report
NAJRAN — The Ministry of Health has stopped paying the rent for the house accommodating the families of two boys swapped at birth, local Arabic daily Al-Watan reported on Monday.
Najran’s Al-Khalidiyyah police station asked the families of Yacoub and Ali to vacate th
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Job fair in Madinah
Officials of the Technical and Vocational Training Council (TVTC) in Madinah Region receive applications from young Saudi jobseekers at the job fair held at the Tourism and Hospitality College headquarters in Madinah on Monday. There was a huge turnout of qualified graduates to take up jobs offered by major private companies and establishments at the two-week fai
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Saudi man arrested for SR45m con
Ali Bin Gharsan
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
MAKKAH – A Saudi man in his 30s who allegedly abused his father’s reputation as a former senior government official and conned SR45 million out of 15 people, was arrested by Qassim Police on Monday and charged with writing 200 fraudulent checks.
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Al-Jouf olive fest opens today
Abdul Aziz Abdul Wahid
Saudi Gazette
AL-JOUF — Under the support of Al-Jouf Emir Prince Fahd bin Badr, the province’s sixth annual olive festival will open on Tuesday evening at the Civilization Center in the town of Sakaka and continue for two weeks.
Al-Jouf Municipality is
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Court set to deliver verdict in Al-Jizawi case today
Abdul Rahman Al-Ali
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — The Jeddah General Court is due to issue its final verdict Tuesday in the case of an Egyptian lawyer arrested in Jeddah for smuggling narcotics into the Kingdom.
Ahmad Al-Jizawi was apprehended last April at King Abdul Aziz International
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Thoraya Obaid, one of the 30 women appointed to Shoura Council visited Saudi Gazette
Thoraya Obaid, former Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund and an Undersecretary General of the United Nations and one of the 30 women appointed to the Shoura Council, paid a visit to Saudi Gazette office on Monday. She is seen with Saudi Gazette Editor-In-Chief Khaled Almaeena. — SG photo by Amer Hilabi
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New body to develop tourist guides in Makkah
Fatima Muhammad
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — The tourism committee at the Makkah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) recommended on Monday enhancing the skills of tourist guides and investing more in tourism projects in Makkah.
At a chamber meeting, the committee believed developing
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Court endorses maid’s murder confession
Aisha Jamal
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — The general court in Jeddah on Sunday has ratified a confession from an Ethiopian housemaid who allegedly killed a 60-year-old disabled man using a chair, iron, knife and weighing scales.
She is also accused of trying to kill two of his children.
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Dr. Khoja named president of Arab ministerial bureau
CAIRO – The Council of Arab Information Ministers has elected Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Abdulaziz Khoja as president of the Council’s Executive Bureau for a period of two years.He was chosen during the 44th session of the Council, which began at the Arab League headquarters here on Tuesday.Council’s President Ali Al-Amrani, Minister of Information of Yemen, c
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Saudi Charitable Fund signs agreements worth SR57 million
The Saudi Charitable Fund on Tuesday signed a series of agreements worth a total of SR57 million with a number of private sector companies to create jobs for women from underprivileged families. The agreements were signed at the governorate in Jeddah in the presence of Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, Emir of Makkah. — SPA
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