Parking no longer a problem

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   What was once a busy residential neighborhood dotted with high-rise buildings in the heart of the holy city has now been turned into a makeshift car park by the city’s residents. The Al-Nakasa district of Makkah has been demolished to make way for development projects under way in the holy city. — Courtesy photo

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Indian Consulate officials to visit Jazan

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   JEDDAH — A team from the Consulate General of India, Jeddah would be visiting Jazan on Friday, September 12 to provide consular services (limited to attestation and passport services not being provided by the outsourced agencies) to the Indian nationals from 8:30 to 11:00  and 17:00 to 20:00 at Hotel Adnan (Tel. No. 017-3171641/3217777)

'Helping Hands' organizes a ladies' get-together

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  Munawarunnisa Nazneen Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH — "Helping Hands," a social, welfare, and non-profit group, recently organized an Eid Milan (Eid gathering) and Jashn-e-Azadi (Independence Day) ladies program at a local restaurant here. Hosted by the presid

SIBN hosts interactive session with businessmen

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Indian Ambassador  Hamid Ali Rao and Saudi co-chair of India Saudi Joint Business Council (JBC) Kamel S. Al Munajjed along with Saudi and Indian delegates at the Saudi India Business Network (SIBN) meet in Riyadh. — Courtesy photo  RIYADH — Saudi India Business Network (SIBN) organized a s

Honorary Consuls Council honor 50 diplomats

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  Samar Yahya Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH —The Honorary Consuls Council held its annual ceremony to honor 50 diplomats and prominent personnel in Jeddah Monday at Park Hyatt. The President of Honorary Consuls, Mohammad Mahmoud Attar, Honorary Consul of Canada, confirmed

Work set to start on 1,000-bed east Jeddah hospital

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  Saudi Gazette report  JEDDAH — Work on the new East Jeddah Hospital in the Briman district will start this year, the director of Jeddah Health Affairs has said.“Construction of the hospital will be completed in three years at a cost of more than SR1 billion,&rdquo

Power consumption rises to unprecedented levels in August

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  Saudi Gazette report RIYADH – Electricity consumption in the Kingdom peaked to unprecedented levels last month, according to official statistics. The total power consumption in the country was 56,500 megawatts on Sunday, Aug. 31, which is an increase of 7.7 percent compared t

Days of traffic jams are back

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   Normal chaos returned to the streets of Riyadh with many vacationers returning to the city after the summer school break. The picture shows the congestion on one of the city’s main thoroughfares at the peak traffic hour. Simultaneous construction work at five different locations for the Riyadh Metro has worsened the situation. — Courtesy photo

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The faltering projects once again

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  Abid Khazandar Al-Riyadh   I HAVE written several times before on this subject but I am revisiting it because of a frightening report I recently read in one of our local newspapers. The report quoted some experts as saying that the costs of the projects that falter every year are more than SR100 billion, m

God, please help me get married

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  Mohammed Al-Ossaimi Okaz   I HOPE my wife will not read this article and thinks that it is me who has made this duaa (supplication). In fact it is for a young man from Khamis Mushayt. He wrote this in bold letters on his car's rear windshield. His marriage has been delayed so he pleaded to God to help him

Five Saudis jailed for following fake Mahdi

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  Mansour Al-Shihri Okaz/Saudi Gazette  RIYADH — A summary court in Riyadh sentenced five Saudis for up to 25 years in prison after they were convicted of following a Kuwaiti man who claimed he was the prophesied Mahdi (savior). Many Muslims, especially the Shiites,

Bureaucracy ‘kills’ Makkah community policing project

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  Saudi Gazette report   RIYADH — Bureaucratic measures followed by government agencies have contributed to the death of a community policing project put forth by Makkah Police 10 years ago before the Public Security Department, according to the former director of Makkah Police’s Criminal Procedures U

Charity for AIDS patients looking after 630 cases

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  Saudi Gazette report  JEDDAH — AIDS patients registered with the Jeddah-based Saudi Charitable Society for AIDS Patients (SACA) have reached 630, the society has announced. Spokesman Musa Hayazie told Dammam-based Alsharq newspaper on Wednesday that 140 of the sufferers

How a teenager became the sole provider for her family

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  Saudi Gazette report  JAZAN — The days and months pass for Um Ritaj, who continues to hope that someone will help meet her and her family’s increasing needs. Struggling to hide her tears while narrating her sad story to Al-Hayat daily, she said she does not know wh

Young entrepreneurs become the toast of Saudi Arabia

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  Saleh Fareed Saudi Gazette  JEDDAH — Young entrepreneurs were recognized at the prestigious Injaz-Saudi Arabia awards at Jeddah Hilton Tuesday night. The competition was launched in 2010 and attended annually by winners from all over the Kingdom. Th

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Private school defies order to pay teachers wage subsidies

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  Saudi Gazette report   AL-KHOBAR — A private girls school has refused to implement a ruling issued two months ago by the Labor Ministry’s labor disputes committee to pay 19 woman teachers outstanding mandatory subsidies on their monthly wages that they had never received since November 2012.

Pakistani diplomats visit prisoners

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   JAZAN — Pakistan Consul General Aftab Ahmed Khokher and Vice Consul for Welfare Syed Tahseemul Haq Haqqi recently visited the central prison in Jazan to inquire about the welfare of Pakistani nationals held in the prison. The diplomats met with the official in-charge of the prison, Lt. Col. Faisal Abdohoo Al-Shaibi. The prison official said

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   RIYADH — Around 5,000 Saudis have over the past eight months brought legal action against their employers in the private sector, compared to 1,000 non-Saudis for the same period, according to a recent Ministry of Labor report. The average number of cases that have been settled by labor dispute committees all over the country does not exceed

Govt subsidies benefit the rich

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   RIYADH — The government’s continuous subsidies for the electricity sector benefits the rich more than the low-income groups, said the governor of the Electricity and Cogeneration Regulatory Authority (ECRA). Dr. Abdullah Al-Shehri , who was addressing a workshop in Riyadh Wednesday, said the disparity poses a huge burden on the governm

Saudi court jails five on terror charges

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  Saudi Gazette report  RIYADH – The Special Criminal Court in Riyadh on Thursday sentenced four Saudis and an Ethiopian national to prison terms ranging from one to five years after they were convicted of terrorism-related charges. The court also slapped a travel ban of