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Banana festival at Thee Ain Heritage Village

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Hamid Al-Shammary, undersecretary at Al-Baha governorate, opens the banana and pandanus festival at Thee Ain Heritage Village on Monday. — SPA

Tabuk citizen loses home of 20 years to court order

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Saudi Gazette report  TABUK — A citizen in Tabuk got the shock of his life when the house he had been living in for more than 20 years was sold in a public auction without his approval and he was evicted along with his family. Mohammed Al-Tuqaigi said the home, which he built 20 years ago on a

Room rents in Makkah, Jeddah up 50 percent

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Saudi Gazette report  JEDDAH – Hotels and furnished apartments in Makkah and Jeddah have increased their rates by 50 percent since the start of the school holidays last week. The holidays also witnessed a rise in the number of Umrah pilgrims and hotel occupancy rates are on average over 90 perc

Open-air market bustling with holiday shoppers in Madinah

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Since the start of mid-year school holidays, the holy city of Madinah is bustling with visitors from all over the Kingdom. The picture shows visitors thronging the open-air market in Uhud. — Okaz photo

Morsi calls on expats to prop up Egypt’s economy

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Samar Yahya Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH — Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who was in the Kingdom to attend the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit in Riyadh, called on his countrymen to continue their remittances and renew their investments in Egypt. Morsi was addressing a gath

Getting visit visas still a lingering issue

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Salem Sahab Al-Madinah newspaper   The US Consul General in Dhahran, Joseph Hood, recently said his country had removed all hurdles impeding the smooth processing of visit visas for Saudis trying to visit the United States. He said the total number of visit visas granted to Saudis in 2012 was up by 60 percent compared t

Abolish the Kafala system and end problems in labor market

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Abid Khazandar Al-Riyadh newspaper   The biggest gift a Saudi can get are work visas, which have become quite profitable to trade in the black market. People who sell work visas have made millions of riyals — they recruit a foreigner on a work visa then free him to work in the market in exchange for

Mature women a hit in EP clothes shop

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Saudi Gazette report  DAMMAM – A women’s clothes shop in Al-Khobar decided to only hire women aged 45 to 50 after all their previous young employees quit, Al-Watan daily reported. The girls who worked for the shop were living in Dammam and had to travel every day to Al-Khobar, said the sh

Women still marginalized in private sector: JCCI official

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Fatima Muhammad Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH — The head of the hospitality committee at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Tuesday that Saudi women should start working in the tourism and hotel sectors just like women in other Arab countries. Khaled Al-Harthy believed th

Alumni honors Kerala Muslim leader Thangal

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  JEDDAH – The Jeddah chapter of Government College Malappuram Alumni hosted a reception in honor of prominent Kerala Muslim leader Panakkad Sayed Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal, who is also an alumni of the college, at Shifa Jeddah auditorium. The function was presided over by P.A Abdurahman, president of the alumni and managing director of

Makkah’s Souq Al-Haramiyah haven for overstayers

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MAKKAH – People of different cultures and backgrounds throng Makkah’s Souq Al-Juma (Friday Market), located next to Al-Mansour Bridge, to snap up bargain electrical appliances, accessories, cheap sundry items, cell phones, used clothes and even food items. While the market provides a platform to both traders and customers to do busine

Aura: The art of living

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Mariam Nihal Saudi Gazette   RIYADH — Born and raised in the Middle East, Aura is a fashion icon for modern homes. Launched in 2010, Aura’s first store is located in Panorama Mall in Riyadh. Aura announced its plans to expand its range of products and services

Athar Alshabab make holidays fun for young patients

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Amal Al-Sibai Saudi Gazette    JEDDAH – Illness knows no age, time, or season. Since the weather in Jeddah is spring-like with cool breezes and clear, sunny skies, most youngsters are outdoors enjoying their school holidays on trips to the beach, parks, and theme parks. Yet some yo

Tourism influx sparks exodus from Jeddah

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Ibrahim Al-Qirbi Okaz/Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH — With the midyear school holidays well under way, Jeddah residents are leaving the coastal city for other regions of the Kingdom as tens of thousands of tourists and holiday makers flood into the city causing traffic jams, visual and sound pollution an

Prince Alwaleed receives Dr. Mustafa Othman Ismael, Sudan’s Minister of Investment

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Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), receives at his office in Riyadh Dr. Mustafa Othman Ismael, Sudan’s Minister of Investment, and an accompanying delegation that included Sudanese Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Abdulhafiz Ibrahim Mohammed. They discussed a number of investment and economic issues. Dr. Nahla Nasser Alanbar, Private Executive

PSCDR defers announcement of award winners

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RIYADH — The Prince Salman Center for Disability Research (PSCDR) has pushed back the date for announcing the winners of the coveted Prince Salman Award for Disability Research to October this year. Nasser Bin Ali Al-Mousa, secretary general of the award committee, said this year the award will be granted in three different categories: heal

IISD career fair attracts top institutions in India, Gulf

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Saudi Gazette report  DAMMAM — A two-day career fair began at International Indian School, Dammam, on Wednesday with at least 14 higher education institutions from the Kingdom, India, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain participating. The annual event at the school’s boys campus in Raka

Saudi student in US wins King award

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Saudi Gazette report  DAMMAM — A Saudi student was recently honored by the University of Alabama with the Dr. Martin Luther King Award, which promotes peaceful coexistence among people in the world, Al-Yaum newspaper reported. The award, one of the most prestigious distinctions offered by Ameri

Riyadh mother celebrates son’s wedding with machine gun fire

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Mishal Al-Otaibi Saudi Gazette   RIYADH — Women invitees to a wedding east of Riyadh were surprised to see the bridegroom’s mother receiving them on arrival at the wedding palace with a machine gun in her hands. When the wedding was over and the newly married couple came out o

Emergency services training for women finally reaches Jeddah

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Saudi Gazette report   JEDDAH — The female wing of the Saudi Red Crescent Authority (SRCA) has started providing training on first aid and emergency services to Saudi women in Jeddah, according to a senior official from the authority. Dr. Muneera Al-Mazroui, director general of the wing, said t
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