Lulu Al-Hubaishi
Al-Madina
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) was praised for its recent decision to allocate a team to combat cybercrimes and go after some accounts in the social networking website Twitter that promote pornography, magic and sorcery. This goes with the objective of getting rid of the
The Haia and Twitter vices
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The rights of housemaids
Daliya Qazzaz
Al-Hayat
An Asian housemaid started showing signs of psychiatric problems a few days after her arrival in the Kingdom. She insisted to go back home at once. The employer spared no efforts to pacify and console her. The housewife told the maid that her problems are a natural result of staying away from her beloved kith and ki
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Exercising a choice
Saudi Gazette report With the modern generation getting more and more exercise conscious in a bid to revel in the health benefits, both men and women have taken to walking and exercising in good measure to maintain their health. Doctors have been advising all about the benefits of walking to health and their voices are being heeded.
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Lack of rescue, first-aid culture in Saudi society
Saudi Gazette report Some of the fire and flooding incidents during the past few years have exposed the low level or even lack of rescue and first-aid culture within Saudi society, Al-Riyadh daily reported. The widespread lack of knowledge on the importance of first-aid and rescue operations, necessitates urgent attention to ensur
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Will CCTV cameras in schools improve discipline?
Saudi Gazette report The recent assault and harassment incidents in the Kingdom’s schools have raised the question of whether installing CCTV cameras in schools will help alleviate such incidents, according to Al-Riyadh daily. Teachers and students have stressed that installing cameras in corridors and schoolyards will facil
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Housekeeper detained for practicing sorcery
MADINAH – Police apprehended an Indonesian woman for allegedly practicing black magic in Tabuk. Lt. Col. Khalid Al-Ghaban, spokesman for Tabuk Police, said the woman, who is a housekeeper, took large amounts of money from her customers. She would ask them to provide her with photographs and information about people they want to cast the spel
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Electrical short causes restaurant fire
AL-BAHA – Civil Defense firefighters battled a fire that broke out in a restaurant. No one was injured in the fire, which started when an electric wire shorted out. The fire was so large that it destroyed almost all food and kitchen utensils in the restaurant.
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Border Guards arrest 66 Egyptian fishermen
JAZAN — Border Guards in Jazan took into custody 66 Egyptian fishermen for allegedly crossing into Saudi territorial waters illegally, according to Border Guard spokesman Brig. Gen. Abdullah Bin Mahfouz. Officers who were on routine patrol duty saw two boats with a large number of people on board. The officers asked the boat captains to stop
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Haia member attacked at girls school
UHUD RUFAIDAH — A member of the Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) was assaulted Thursday while on duty, according to Haia spokesman Sheikh Awad Al-Asmari. The Haia sent some of its members to a girls’ school following a report that an undocumented worker was seen climbing the wall of the school. Wh
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Crackdown continues!
Police netted 141 illegal workers of various Asian nationalities during a crackdown campaign in Jubail on Friday. Police combed several locations and raided houses sheltering expatriates in violation of labor and residency regulations. The picture shows the detainees being taken to a deportation center run by the Dammam Prison Directorate. — Okaz photo
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5 students hurt as bus crashes into machine
ABHA — Five female students sustained moderate injuries when a minibus carrying 23 passengers crashed into a hydraulic borewell drilling machine on Al-Badadah Road in the Asir province on Thursday. The rest of the students escaped unscathed. Red Crescent ambulances transported the injured students to Sabt Al-Alaya General Hospital where they
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Psych warns against social media addiction
JAZAN – A psychologist has warned the public against getting addicted to social media. Ilham Hassan said addiction to social networking sites is posing a grave danger similar to drug addiction. Anyone can harm himself and others easily by excessive use of these websites, she said, adding that such people gradually become unable to communicat
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The elderly can ask govt for assistants
DAMMAM – The nursing supervisor in the medical programs in Al-Qatif, Naima Al-Abdul Rabb Al-Ali, said old people who do not have anyone to care for them have the right to ask the government to pay the salaries of workers assisting them. She said this is part of medical services provided by the state to the elderly people. She drew attention
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Nazaha to seek help of ‘female friends’
JANADRIYA – The National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha) intends to open women’s departments in the commission to boost its efforts to uncover possible corruption in women's sections of various government departments. Nazaha President Muhammad Al-Shareef said the commission would seek the help of its "female friends" for
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EP emir launches Ahsa shelter home
HOFOUF – Emir of the Eastern Province Prince Saud Bin Naif launched on Thursday Aisha Al-Rashed Shaml Home for the care of girls in Al-Ahsa governorate. Built on a 5,500 square meter area at a cost of SR21 million, the home will shelter over 500 girls. Prince Saud toured the complex that comprised educational, social and residential blocks b
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Polio vaccination drive begins today
MAKKAH – Emir of Makkah Prince Mishal Bin Abdullah is scheduled to launch the poliomyelitis vaccination campaign at the governorate office in Makkah on Sunday in the presence of Director of Health Affairs Dr. Abdulsalam Noor Wali. Prince Mishal will launch the campaign by giving polio drops to a boy and a girl. The campaign will take place i
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Bangladesh mission marks Martyrs Day
RIYADH — The Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh commemorated the Great Martyrs Day and International Mother Language Day at the chancery premises on Friday in a befitting manner. The program began with the recitation of the Holy Qur'an. Ambassador Md. Shahidul Islam hoisted the national flag at half-mast and read out messages from t
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417 expats among 2,500 in jail on security grounds
Mansour Al-Sheheri
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — Police detained two Iranian nationals for security reasons. Procedures are being finalized to refer one of the detainees to the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution (BIP), while the other is still being questioned."Wind
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13 govt bodies in Hail still without women’s sections
Saudi Gazette report
HAIL — A survey by the women and children center of the high commission for the development of Hail showed that the lack of women employees in government departments is due to the dominance of men in these bodies, Al-Watan daily reported.
The center's supervisors have
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70% medical errors occur in delivery rooms, says official
Saudi Gazette report
DAMMAM — Medical errors during delivery top the list of medical mistakes in Saudi hospitals, according to a legal consultant at the Shariah Health Commission in Riyadh. Majed Al-Harbi said delivery room errors constituted 70 percent of all medical mistakes in the Kingdom, Makkah dai
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