Controversial Myanmar monk Wirathu, center, attends a meeting of Buddhist monks at a monastery outside Yangon in this file photo. — AFP
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s main Buddhist nationalist group on Saturday announced it will host a radical cleric from Myanmar who is accused of fa
Sri Lanka nationalists to host controversial Myanmar monk
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Telecom employee caught selling SIMs
MAKKAH — The Committee to Combat Technology Crimes in Makkah Region caught an employee of one of the Kingdom’s telecommunications companies selling prepaid SIM cards registered under the names of fake pilgrims. The committee had received a report from a citizen on the man’s activities. As a result, another committee was
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Youth arrested for blackmailing woman
ABHA — The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) in Khamis Mushayt arrested a youth who was blackmailing a woman. He published her pictures on the Internet and sent them to her relatives. The youth, who has a previous criminal record, also had illicit relations with other women. He documented these re
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Fire in restaurant in Rahwat Al-Barr
AL-BAHA — A fire broke out at a restaurant on the main street in Rahwat Al-Barr village as cooks were preparing dinner on Thursday night. A Civil Defense team fought the blaze and managed to extinguish it before it spread. No casualties were reported, Deputy Spokesman of Al-Baha Police Lt. Col. Abdullah Muhammad Al-Dhubayyah said.
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3 dead, 7 injured in Al-Khaldia towers fire
RIYADH — Three people died and seven others were injured in a fire that broke out in one of the 25-storey Al-Khaldia towers on Al-Khazzan Street in downtown Riyadh. The Saudi Red Crescent Authority operations room received a report that a fire had broken out at the intersection between King Fahd Road and Al-Khazzan Street, east of
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MoH: Preventive measures working
Adel Babkair
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — In an exclusive interview, the Acting Minister of Health, Adel Fakeih told Okaz/Saudi Gazette that the ministry’s preventive measures have resulted in a r
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Indian mission handles 121,000 OPD cases
Saudi Gazette report AL-QATIF — The national campaign organized by King Abdullah Interna
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Ministry of Housing kills ambitions
Abdo Khal Okaz Day after day we receive a reply from the Housing Ministry which wakes up citizens from the dreams instilled in them of owning a private home in the very near future. Since this ministry was established, it has been following a pol
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A wake up call
Mazen Abdul Razzaq Baleelah Al-Madina The policy of Saudization alone will not solve the problem of unemployment among Saudis as some of us mistakenly believe. The issue is bigger than the Ministry of Labor alone. We should, therefore, look for ways and means to join work and education in
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Thousands of patients still wait for stem cell donation
Saudi Gazette report
AL-QATIF — The national campaign organized by King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC) showed the culture of stem cell donation is almost nonexistent in the Kingdom as only 5,000 donors have signed up so
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15th Makkah Conference to be inaugurated Sunday
MAKKAH – Prince Mishal Bin Abdullah, Emir of Makkah region, is scheduled to open the 15th Makkah Conference entitled “Islamic culture .. originality and contemporaneity”, under the aegis of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.
The Muslim World League (MWL) will hold the c
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Haj symposium to discuss honoring of the Haj rites
Abdulaziz Ghazzawi
Okaz / Saudi Gazette
MAKKAH — The 39th annual Haj symposium will be held this year under the theme: "Honoring of the Haj rites", Haj Minister Bandar Al-Hajjar announced.
He said prominent Islamic scholars, Fiqh (j
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Twitter users slam girl, 11, for ‘immodest’ National Day show
Saudi Gazette report HAIL — An 11-year-old girl who appeared in a theater play here last Wednesday supporting makeup and her long hair uncovered while performing a National Day song has stirred a heated debate on the social media website Twitter, an Arabic dai
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Disabled young man barred for life from recruiting a driver
JEDDAH — Saudi national Muhammad Aal Salim Al-Ghamdi has asked the Ministry of Social Affairs to alleviate the suffering of his son Ali, who following a traffic accident, suffers from complete paralysis. Ali, speaking with great difficulty to a Makkah
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Pakistan Haj Mission mobilizes 1,600-member team to serve pilgrims
Hassan Cheruppa Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – Nearly one-fourth of foreign pilgrims who have come to perform Haj this year are from the Indian Subcontinent. Pakistan tops with 143,368 pilgrims out of the total 378,200
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Kingdom’s participation in fighting terror
Jasser A. Al-Jasser Al-Jazirah The Kingdom’s participation in fighting terrorists who belong to the self-proclaimed Islamic State, Al-Nusra Front and Khorasan group in Syria refutes all claims that terrorism is a Sunni brand.
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One Haj is enough
Abdullah Al-Jamili Al-Madina I still vividly remember the faces of the Egyptian pilgrims that were filled with joy as the pilgrims were waiting for their plane to take off and take them to Makkah to perform Haj. One of them told me h
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Hunt on for car arsonists
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Haj guides attack decision forcing retirement at 65
Ezz Eldin Ahmed
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — A number of mutawifs (Haj guides) have strongly criticized the Haj Ministry’s decision to force them into retirement when they turn 65.
They urged the ministry to rescind its decision because
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Four injured in car accident
QURAYYAT — Four people were injured when their pickup truck overturned on a busy street in Al-Qurayyat. Three of the four victims were treated at the scene by locals while the fourth was in a critical condition. All of the injured were taken to a hospital.
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