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  Fuad Mustafa Azab Okaz   EVERY Friday, I go to Al-Milah Cemetery in Makkah to visit my mother’s grave. Afterward, I go to the Grand Mosque to perform Friday prayer. While I was sitting near my late mother’s grave, a father and his two children, who seemed to hail from an Arab country, caught my attention. Th

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Kingdom keen to apply scientific methodology in dealing with Alzheimer's

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  Saudi Gazette report   RIYADH — The Second International Conference of Alzheimer's disease aims to stress the Kingdom's keenness to apply institutionalized scientific methodology in dealing with Alzheimer's disease prevention and treatment, Prince Saud Bin Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdurrahman, Chairman of

Agony of a man falsely diagnosed with AIDS

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  Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — Hasan Omar Baismail received a false medical report from King Abdulaziz Hospital in August this year stating that he is inflicted with three fatal diseases including AIDS, hepatitis and pneumonitis. The news came to him as a shock and he was forc

Prince Khaled receives Indian ambassador

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   Minister of Education Prince Khaled Al-Faisal receives Indian Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao at his office in Riyadh on Wednesday. Rao apprised Prince Khaled of the education related issues of the Indian community to which the minister responded positively and assured all help. Deputy Chief of Mission Hemant Kotalwar and First Secretary Political, Information and Educat

Sponsor accused of beating, starving maid for three days

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  Saudi Gazette report   NAJRAN —  A 45-year-old maid sought help from neighbors on Monday after she was allegedly beaten and deprived of food by her sponsor in Najran, Makkah daily reported. The neighbor, Abu Saleh, said he moved into his house a month ago and report

Expats monopolizing charitable society jobs, says Labor Ministry

November 26, 2014, 1:00 pm

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  Saudi Gazette report   RIYADH — The Ministry of Labor has rejected requests from charitable societies in the Kingdom to exempt them from labor fees and issuance of work permits to expatriate workers, Al-Watan daily reported. An informed source said the Ministry of Labor

KSA produces 12m tons of solid waste a year

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  Naheel Abdullah Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH — Experts at a scientific forum said over 170 cities and villages in the Kingdom produce more than 12 million tons of solid waste annually. The comments were made at King Abdulaziz University’s 1st Scientific Forum for Municipal Solid Wast

Pakistani executed for heroin smuggling

November 27, 2014, 1:00 pm

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   AL-KHOBAR — A Pakistani convicted of heroin smuggling was executed in Al-Khobar on Thursday. Mohammed Rahman Mohammed Asghar had been “tried and found guilty of smuggling a large quantity of heroin into the Kingdom,” the Saudi Press Agency said, quoting an Interior Ministry statement.

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Health Ministry demands bigger budget

November 27, 2014, 1:00 pm

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   RIYADH — The Ministry of Health has demanded a 10 percent increase in its budget to help meet citizens’ healthcare needs. It also demanded increasing the financial allocations for non-medical operations, maintenance and cleaning. It said more funds are needed for the completion of ongoing projects and the purchase of equipment. It said

No errors in Qur’an copies at mosques

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   MADINAH — Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Sudais, head of the Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, has said Qur’an copies inside the two holy mosques as well as other mosques in the Kingdom are free of any printing errors. He said the Qur’an copies approved by the presidency are those printed at the King Fahd Complex for Pri

Hospital owner ordered to pay SR57m

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   JEDDAH — A protracted legal dispute between the owner of a local hospital and the hospital’s employees and clients ended at the executive court in Jeddah. The court ordered the owner to pay SR57 million in entitlements to 400 doctors and other employees as well as 20 companies that provided the hospital with medicines and other pharmac

Supervision of medical cities tightened

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   JEDDAH — The Ministry of Health will tighten the supervision of its computer system for human resources in all medical cities and specialist hospitals in the country. The ministry said its computer network will be linked directly with all medical cities and hospitals. The move follows recommendations of an investigation committee formed by t

Shoura proposes ministry for environment

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   RIYADH — The Health and Environment Committee in the Shoura Council adopted a recommendation for setting up a ministry for the environment and increase the number of radiation monitoring stations to cover all regions of the Kingdom. The council will also vote on the previous recommendations for reinforcing the project for environmental monit

Emir calls for transparency in transactions

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   MAKKAH — Makkah Emir Prince Mishal Bin Abdullah, who is also the chairman of the regional council, has issued directives to implement the principle of transparency in transactions between the governorate, official bodies and the citizens. He said this can be achieved by launching a website that discloses full details of the regional plan for

Humanitarian Action Forum held in Jeddah

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   IIROSA Secretary-General Ehsan Saleh Taieb (3rd right) and Majdi Al-Toukhi (2nd left), IIROSA’s director for risk and quality, with guests and invitees at the Second International Forum on Humanitarian Action in Jeddah on Thursday. — Courtesy photo

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Abdul Vahid elected new chairman of Jeddah Indian school

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  Hassan Cheruppa Saudi Gazette   JEDDAH – Mohammed Raziq Abdul Vahid from Kerala has been elected new chairman of the managing committee of the International Indian School-Jeddah (IISJ). The election was held Thursday evening under the supervision of Consul Education, Head of Chancery

Why are there so many unmarried Saudi women?

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  Othman Hamad Aba Al-Khail Al-Jazeera   In our society, there are several contradictions and these contradictions are the by-products of our customs and traditions. These customs have gained ground in society and only a few can bypass them. Marriage is part of this system. It is in the institute of marriag

When will expats be treated with respect by Saudi airport immigration officers?

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  Zuhair Kutbi Makkah daily   I have a message for the Director General of the Passports Department, which I received from one of my readers. Allow me to tell you what happened to this reader, who is a respectable woman, a doctor and someone well known in society. She arrived in Jeddah on a Saudia flight fr

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  Siraj Abu Al-Saud Al-Sharq   Sexual harassment is a crisis faced by most countries in the world. There are several organizations that fight the various forms of sexual harassment. Hollaback! is one such international movement that works to end street harassment and is led by a network of local activists around the world

Rijal Alma — A magnet for nature lovers

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  Saudi Gazette report   RIJAL ALMA, about 45 kilometers west of Abha, is one of the most prominent cultural and archeological destinations in the Kingdom. Situated at the foot of the Assouda Mountain on an ancient trade route connecting Yemen, Makkah and the Red Sea, Rijal Alma is called a stone village because it was laboriousl