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   Eritrean Ambassador Mohammed Omar Mahmoud hands a letter from President Isaisas Afwerki to Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company. The ambassador is set to leave the Kingdom after finishing his term in the country. — Courtesy photo

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  Saudi Gazette report   JAZAN — A spokesman at the local Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has denied reports that the head of a Haia center was arrested for blackmailing a woman into having sex with him. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdali told Al-Madinah daily that the repor

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  Saudi Gazette report  RIYADH — The number of Saudi women who are drug addicts is small, according to the director of women’s affairs department at the Anti-Narcotics Directorate. Together with the Ministry of Education and other authorities, the directorate has ove

47% scholarship applicants are women

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  Saudi Gazette report   RIYADH — The 10th phase of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program has received more than 10,491 applications, of which 47 percent were from women. Spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, Mohammad Al-Haizan, said the number of women applicant

Over 16,000 Saudi students in Australia: Ambassador

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  Saudi Gazette report   RIYADH — There are more than 16,000 Saudis currently studying in Australia, the country's ambassador has said. Neil Hawkins told local daily Al-Watan on Wednesday: “All these students are well behaved and have not created any serious security issues.“They

Over 86,000 road deaths in 20 years

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  Abdullah Ghurman Okaz/Saudi Gazette  JEDDAH — More than 86,000 people have died in traffic accidents in the Kingdom over the past two decades, according to official statistics. The figures said the number of traffic victims in the Kingdom has surpassed the number

Govt funds treatment of 138 Saudi special needs children abroad

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  Saudi Gazette report  RIYADH — The Ministry of Education funds 138 Saudi special needs children with a budget of SR7.5 million annually through a foreign rehabilitation center due to the lack of facilities available in the Kingdom, Makkah daily reported. Deputy manager o

Thousands expected at EP charity run

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  Faisal Aboobacker Ponnani Saudi Gazette  DAMMAM — The 19th annual charity run, one of the biggest events of the Eastern Province, will take place at the Corniche on Saturday. Mohed Roubil, of the organization committee, told Saudi Gazette that the run has become o

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Chairs made of glue

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  Qaisar Metawea Al-Madinah   AN official in the developed country is someone who is really in charge of his office. He is an official in the real sense of the word. He is responsible for everything that happens in the department he is heading. In this sense, the official will have to bear all consequences i

OIC-IDB announce assistance to Ebola-hit countries

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Saudi Deputy Health Minister Dr. Mansour Nasser Alhowasi, Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General Iyad Madani and  Islamic Development Bank (IDB) President Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali attend a conference on measures to fight Ebola. — Courtesy photo  JEDDAH — The joint conference organized by the Organ

Khoja relieved; Hajjar acting minister of information

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   RIYADH — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah issued on Wednesday a royal order relieving Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Abdulaziz Khoja from his post at his request and assigning Minister of Haj Dr. Bandar Hajjar to act as minister of culture and information in addition to his current duties. Khoja was app

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  Saudi Gazette report  DAMMAM — The disparity in wages between men and women in the Gulf region is the largest in Saudi Arabia, Makkah daily reported. According to statistics published by the World Economic Forum for 2014, Saudi women earn on average only 56 percent of th

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  Mansour Al-Shehri Okaz/Saudi Gazette  RIYADH — Al-Qaeda set up a new terrorist cell in Saudi Arabia consisting of 12 members to target the Summary Court in Riyadh, the court heard. The plot was uncovered during a trial of 50 people accused of belonging to a terror

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    RIYADH — More than 260 days have passed since the Saudi and Indonesian labor ministries signed an agreement to organize the recruitment of Indones

Ban on growing wheat in 55 days

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    JEDDAH — Minister of Agriculture Fahd Balghunaim has said the ministry’s ban on the cultivation of wheat in the Kingdom will be effective in

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    RIYADH — The Justice Ministry has started privatizing part of the work of the notaries public as part of its drive to develop the judicial system

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   JEDDAH — There are more than 8.2 million expatriates working in the private sector compared to 1.4 million Saudis, according to a senior official of the Labor Ministry. Ahmed Al-Fiahid, ministry undersecretary, told Okaz/Saudi Gazette that the increasing number

Kaaba to be washed on Saturday

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   MAKKAH — On behalf of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, Makkah Emir Prince Mishal Bin Abdullah will lead the Holy Kaaba washing ceremony early Saturday. Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Sudais, head of the Presidency of the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques; m

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   RIYADH — Security forces detained eight people suspected to be involved in a fatal terror attack in Al-Dalwah village, Al-Ahsa, on Monday. Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, Interior Ministry spokesman, said the total number of arrested suspects has increased to 23. Me

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   Joud Alamri  Saudi Gazette  Smoking, according to several pieces of research and national quit-smoking campaigns, is harmful. However, secondhand smoking is just as bad and deserves equal attention if not more.  Secondhand smoking is the inhalation of smoke from