Abdullah Abu Al-Samh
Okaz newspaper
LABOR Minister Adel Fakieh has become a star in the local press and not a day passes without his pictures and statements in print.
Fakieh makes controversial decisions that polarize public opinion, especially in the private sector. His move to impose a monthly SR200 fee per expatr
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Crown Prince Salman receives Director of World Food Program
Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense, receives Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of World Food Program (WFP), in Riyadh on Tuesday. — SPA
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Forum to recommend ways to improve disabled access
Hussein Abu Al-Sibaa
Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — A global forum on comprehensive accessibility has wound up its two-day deliberations in Riyadh on Monday and will issue its recommendations next week.
The forum, attended by representatives from 20 countries, was held as part of the 20th
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Makkah to hire 5 contracting firms for city cleaning
Abdullah Al-Dhubyani
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
MAKKAH — The Makkah Mayoralty will sign contracts with five cleaning companies when its agreement with its current contractor expires, the local authority said.
Muhammad Al-Mourqi, the mayoralty’s director of cleaning, admitted some of the cleaners e
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Suspect in Yemeni’s murder turns himself in
Badea Abu Al-Naja
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
MAKKAH — A 20-year-old citizen has turned himself in to Makkah’s Al-Kakiah police station eight hours after the murder of a Yemeni expatriate.
Makkah police received notification of a murder in the local Wali Al-Ahd neighborhood.
Teams fr
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Egyptian expats begin voting in referendum
Hussein Abu Al-Sibaa
Saudi Gazette
RIYADH – Egyptian expatriates living in the Kingdom started casting their votes in the country’s constitutional referendum on Wednesday.
Polling stations on the premises of Egyptian diplomatic missions in Riyadh and Jeddah will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p
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Baby poisoning case adjourned to next month
DAMMAM — The General Court in Dammam on Tuesday adjourned for the third time the case of an Indonesian maid who was charged with killing a four-month-old baby in her care by putting rat poison in his milk in May 2010.
The child’s father, Ahmad Al-Boshal, said the court adjourned the case to next month because the hospita
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Murder suspect arrested in east Riyadh
Mishal Al-Otaibi
Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — Search and investigation teams from east Riyadh’s Al-Khaleej neighborhood police station arrested a Saudi citizen accused of murdering another citizen.
Riyadh police received a report that the victim had been killed in front of his house.
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Third Civil Status office opens in Jeddah
JEDDAH — Director General for Civil Status in Makkah Province Ghazi Al-Bisheri opened a third Civil Status office in north Jeddah on Tuesday.
The office started receiving customers the same day it opened.
He said the office, based at Good Center Mall, offers its services to all citizens in Jeddah, adding it will
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Reporters barred from airport as disabled children arrive in Tabuk
Saudi Gazette report
TABUK/MADINAH — While officials at Prince Muhammad Airport in Madinah allowed the press to cover the departure of the second batch of the physically challenged from Al-Madinah Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center to Tabuk on a special plane ordered by the King, the authorities at Prince Sultan Ai
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Yemeni pair caught stealing perfumes worth SR200,000
Abdurahman Al-Ali
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – Police patrols in Jeddah caught two Arab youths red-handed with perfumes worth SR200,000 that they had stolen from a shop in north Jeddah’s Al-Safa district.
The arrests were made two hours after police received a complaint from the shop owner.
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Prison, lashes, deportation for handbag mugger
Abdulrahman Al-Ali
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – The District Court in Jeddah has sentenced an Arab expatriate to imprisonment, lashes and deportation after he was convicted of a series of handbag muggings in Jeddah’s Sharafiya and Ruwais districts.
The handbag snatcher was taken to court after
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Man killed Pakistani for ‘smoking outside mosque’
Hatem Al-Masoudi
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
MAKKAH — Makkah police have referred a man accused of murdering two people in the city’s Al-Ghassalah neighborhood mosque to psychologists to check his mental condition.
Okaz/Saudi Gazette sources said the suspect was mumbling unclear sentences during p
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Prince Alwaleed receives Executive Director of the UN World Food Program
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Chairman of Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, and Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel, Vice Chairwoman and Secretary-General of the Foundation, receive Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the UN World Food Program (WFP), and an accompanying delegation in Riyadh on Tuesday. — Courtesy photo
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Number of Saudi female prisoners drops
Nader Al-Enezi
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TABUK — There has been a decline in the number of Saudi female prisoners, the prisons director has claimed.
Director of Prisons Maj. Gen. Ali Al-Harthy said prisons were overcrowded and this has limited prisoners’ capacity to benefit from their stay
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Families start flocking to Jeddah’s seafront again
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH – Residents of Jeddah started flocking back to the North Corniche, which was closed to the public nearly two years ago for a massive overhaul of the seafront.
Work was carried out over a three-kilometer stretch of the Corniche from the Border Guard Command in the south to A
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Water mixed with leaking fuel causes alarm
Ibrahim Shehab Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Ground water is getting mixed with leaking fuel from a petrol station in Jeddah’s Al-Marwah 3 district, local residents claimed. Residents of Al-Qurtubiah Street are fearful of a possible catastrophic explosion. A resident said a
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Absence of traffic cops deepens chaos on streets
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — Despite the launch of awareness campaigns, doubling of traffic fines and installation of surveillance cameras, the Kingdom’s streets are still suffering from increasing traffic chaos.
The number of traffic accidents has soared to dangerous levels. Many innocent peop
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We have no right to object
Saeed Al-Siraihi
Okaz newspaper
NO one has the right to protest when he or she comes to know that the remittances made by expatriates and foreign contractors to their respective homes during the past nine months have reached more than SR101 billion.
These remittances are expected to go up to more than SR130 billion b
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Aviation firms seek tax cuts to boost sector
Fatima Muhammad
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – An international aviation conference at Jeddah Hilton has managed to facilitate around 130 agreements related to the sector between delegations from all around the world, it was announced here on Wednesday.
These agreements, signed at the Air Services Negot
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