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Saleh Al-Zahrani Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Economists and consumers said they have not noticed any improvement in prices following the monitoring of markets and restaurants. The Ministry of Commerce recently employed 500 market supervisors to monitor prices, and seize counterfeit products. However, this has

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‘We will safeguard open-doors tradition’

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Saudi Gazette report MADINAH — Prince Faisal Bin Salman took over as the new Emir of Madinah province on Sunday in line with the royal order appointing him to the key post, the Saudi Press Agency reported. On arriving at his office Sunday morning, Prince Faisal received senior officials and a group of

Pak officials explore ways to improve pilgrim services

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Pakistan’s Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah (C) flanked by Ambassador Muhammad Naeem Khan (R) and Consul General Aftab A. Khokher (L) at a dinner in Jeddah Saturday. — SG photoHigher quota sought for upcoming Haj seasonMahmood HasanSaudi GazetteJEDDAH — Pakistan has asked Saudi Arabia to increase its Haj quota by 20,000 for the upcoming

Patients battling renal failure speak about their sufferings

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Tamader Al-Rehaili Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Patients who suffer from kidney failure spend up to 15 hours a week receiving dialysis, which is the most common method of treatment used by doctors to treat advanced kidney failure. Patients receive the treatment at a dialysis center where their blood is pumped t

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Abdullah Omar Khayyat Okaz newspaper The increasing number of foreigners, whether legal or illegal, in the Kingdom is one of the most important economic issues facing our country. Expatriates occupy jobs that could be otherwise filled by unemployed Saudis and they even crowd our streets with old, polluting cars unfit for the road. T

They suffer in silence

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Saleh Al-Turigee Okaz newspaper PERHAPS the most infamous Adhl case, which is when a woman’s male guardians prevent her from marrying, was that of a doctor in Madinah who spent 10 years in a group home for women before she lost the lawsuit she had filed against her father for preventing her marriage even though she was well over 40 years of

Murderer, drugs smuggler executed

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RIYADH — Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed one its nationals convicted of murder as well as a Syrian convicted of smuggling drugs into the Kingdom, the Interior Ministry announced. Mohammed Al-Qahtani shot dead fellow national Mueed Al-Qahtani in a fight, the ministry said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). He was executed in the south

Pesticide content: Indian pepper banned

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TAIF — The Ministry of Agriculture has banned import of pepper from India, a local newspaper reported. Tests revealed the presence of pesticides in samples of the pepper. The ministry has said an official certificate should accompany shipments of pepper that testifies traces of pesticide are within acceptable limits. The decision will become effective lat

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Project for women empowerment set

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DAMMAM — The Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Fund for Women’s Development is preparing for the launch of a program that funds and develops projects run by women in March, a local newspaper reported.  Preparations for the launch of “Intelaqati 14” began with meetings to include new additions to the training program for e

Work begins to dismantle Jeddah zoo

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JEDDAH — Work has started to clear the Beautiful Creatures zoo in Jeddah two months after it closed, a local newspaper reported. The zoo is to make way for the Al-Haramain high speed train project, which runs parallel to the Al-Haramain Expressway, heading toward Al-Naseem train station in the Old Airport area.  The municipality had

Japanese Food Festival kicks off

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JEDDAH – The Japanese Food Festival was inaugurated at Al Safina Restaurant, Hilton Hotel on Monday, Feb. 11 at 07:30 pm. The occasion was attended by the Consul General of Japan who led the ribbon-cutting ceremony and several prominent personalities from Jeddah. Prior to cutting the ribbon and launching the food fest, Jun

Maiden women’s cricket match in Kingdom

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Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Cricket Samarwa Tigers and Riyadh Fairies contested the inaugural Royal Academy of Cricket (RAC) ladies cricket match in the Kingdom. Famous and well-known artist Sharifa Bint Turki Al-Sudairy attended the event organized by RAC in collaboration with Ain-Raat. Al-S

Several Jeddah students to be ‘iskolar ng bayan’

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Donna Corpin Saudi Gazette    JEDDAH — Several students from Philippine-curriculum schools in Jeddah are bound for the University of the Philippines (UP), the country’s premier state university, in June when Academic Year 2013-2014 starts. The said students passed the UPCAT (

Women married to foreigners can now sponsor kids, spouse

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Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — The Directorate General of Passports has started implementing a Council of Ministers decision allowing Saudi women married to foreigners to sponsor their children. Those eligible under the ruling will be granted residency permits (iqamas) with their mothers name

Prince Faisal meets Pakistani Minister of Religious Affairs

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Madinah Emir Prince Faisal Bin Salman meets with Pakistani Minister of Religious Affairs Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah on Tuesday. The minister conveyed the greetings of Pakistan’s president and prime minister to Prince Faisal on assumption of his new responsibilities. They also discussed matters pertaining to Haj-2013 and various facilities for the Pakistani pilgrims. &mdash

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NSHR needs to redefine role

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Abdulaziz Al-Rebaiei and Mohammad Al-Enezi Saudi Gazette TAIF/DAMMAM — Some citizens are claiming that the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has lost its direction and has strayed away from its core values as it relies on findings merely through correspondence with government bodies. They insist that the rol

Valentine’s Special: Saudi religious police deny intent to close flower shops

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The head of Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice [CPVPV], denied on Tuesday plans to close shops selling flowers during Valentine’s Day. Sheikh Abdullatif al-Sheikh told the Saudi daily newspaper al-Jazirah: “This is not our specialty. It is the specialty of other parties. We reject what violates the book

Drop mahram rule for scholarship students: NSHR member

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Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — A member of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has urged the Ministry of Higher Education to review a condition that states a male guardian must accompany women scholarship students abroad. Dr. Suhaila Zainul Abideen said the condition was "unprac

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JEDDAH — A Comprehensive Skills Analysis Test in connection with selection of students for a leadership training program (Lead 2020) will be held on Wednesday. The screening test will be conducted in most of the Indian schools in Jeddah for class VI and VII students. The 90-minute test will be based on Mental Ability, General English, Gener

240 jobless women graduates to sue ministry

February 12, 2013, 1:00 pm

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Saudi Gazette report DAMMAM — Some 240 unemployed women graduates are planning to file a lawsuit against the Ministry of Civil Service for the delay in hiring them. All the women are teachers by profession. Amr Al-Azyarbi, a lawyer, said that he has started the procedures to file the petitio