QURAYYAT — The Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Hai’a) in Al-Jouf nabbed a cell phone store employee who stole personal images from female customers’ cell phones and then gave them to different male customers. The Hai’a spokesman said a Saudi man filed a complaint with the Hai’a branch after the expatriate
Store worker steals cell phone images
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3 victims of Jubail accident identified
DAMMAM — The Eastern Province Health Affairs spokesman said the corpses of three children, involved in the deadly Jubail school bus accident on Wednesday, have been identified and preparations have been made to hand them over to their parents. It was difficult for doctors at the morgue to identify the corpses when they were brought in due to the severity of their
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Saher cameras in Madinah next week
MADINAH — Starting next week, Saher cameras will go into operation in several key locations on main streets and intersections in Madinah, according to the head of safety department at Madinah Traffic Administration. The Saher traffic monitoring system uses cameras and radars to levy fines against drivers who speed and run red lights, park in no-parking zones and
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Jordanian accreditation for Saudi forensic doc
Adel Babkair
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — Saudi doctor Manar Al-Harthy was recently accredited by the Jordanian Board in Medicine and Pathology (JBMP) after she successfully passed all of the board’s examinations, which are equivalent to a PhD degree.
Al-Harthy is now the first Saudi female forensic docto
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Sana’a medical city named after King Abdullah
RIYADH — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has given his approval to name after him a medical city being built in the Yemeni capital Sana’a with Saudi aid.
The Kingdom has donated $200 million for the medical complex, which will be known as King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Medical City. It will have a capacity of 1,000 beds and is
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Saudi female divers fear no challenges
Adel Babkair Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Diving in the Kingdom has largely been a male dominated hobby and rarely have we heard about female divers who are interested in exploring the depth of the sea. Over the past few years, however, more and more women in Jeddah are taking diving courses so they can enjoy the experience o
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Lion cub at large in Makkah
Hatim Al-Masoudi
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
MAKKAH — Police have mobilized several officers to search for a four-month-old lion cub that escaped from his owner’s house in Al-Awali neighborhood, according to Makkah police spokesman Lt. Col. Abdulmohsin Al-Maiman.
The cub escaped after the owner opened his cage do
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Al-Kharj disabled center’s chief axed
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH/AL-KHARJ — Minister of Social Affairs Yousuf Al-Othaimeen issued an urgent decision on Thursday relieving the director of the Center for the Care of the Disabled in Al-Kharj from his post.
He also ordered an investigation into unauthorized absence of supervisors at the center, Al-Watan newspaper reported F
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Expat housewives must stay at home: Labor Ministry
Saudi Gazette report
DAMMAM – The Ministry of Labor has officially warned expatriates against allowing their wives who are in the Kingdom as housewives to work in the private sector and said it considers anyone on a dependent visa working in the private sector as a violation of the residency laws and regulations of the Kingdom.
It fu
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Police comb Faifa mountains in crackdown on infiltrators
Abdullah Al-Fifi Okaz/Saudi Gazette FAIFA — Three Ethiopian infiltrators were killed in a shootout with security officers who were raiding several suspicious locations in the border region. At least 58 overstayers who tried to flee the scene awere arrested. One security officer was injured in the exchange of fi
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45 injured in Riyadh prison riot
RIYADH — At least 45 inmates of Riyadh’s Al-Malaz Prison were injured on Friday after they fought inside their cells, Al-Hayat daily reported on Saturday.
The fight followed an exchange of words between Saudi and Ethiopian prisoners.
The spokesman for the General Directorate of Prisons, Col. Ayoub Naheet,
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Lion cub was stolen; thief arrested
Saudi Gazette report
MAKKAH — Police have arrested the thief who stole a lion cub from its den in Al-Awali neighborhood on Thursday, Al-Madinah daily reported Saturday quoting spokesman for Makkah police Lt. Col. Abdulmohsin Al-Maiman.
He said the man stole the cub because he and his sons were emotion
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Bootlegger gets jail term, lashes
Abdurahman Al-Ali
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – The Jeddah Criminal Court on Saturday sentenced an Ethiopian to five years in prison and 500 lashes for brewing and selling alcohol.
A number of foreigners, including the convicted Ethiopian, used to brew arrack at a secret mountainous location in Al-Khu
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DAH workshop highlights role of mediation in conf lict resolution
Sana Abdul Salam Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — In conjunction with Walker Consultancy, Dar Al-Hekma College (DAH) recently organized a mediation workshop that was open to all. The workshop was attended by the college’s legal studies students, faculty members, staff members and women working in law
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Pakistan Ladies’ Group
Pakistan Ambassador Mohammad Naeem Khan cuts the cake in the presence of Consul General Aftab A. Khokher (R) and coordinator Nighat Farooqi at a function organized by the Pakistan Ladies’ Group in Jeddah on Thursday to raise funds for the needy families. The highlight of the night was ghazal renditions by Zia Ahmed. — SG photo
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Fine for Saudi who rescued distressed teachers
Khalid Al-Jabri
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
MADINAH — A Saudi rescued eight teachers and the driver of their car following an accident on the Madinah-Hail Road. Humood Al-Shamani was driving behind the female teachers’ vehicle on Wednesday morning on their way to a remote village. He was also taking his wi
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Keek: A fine line between use and abuse
Laura Bashraheel Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia has some of the highest adoption rates of social networking sites in the world with Facebook, micro-blogging website Twitter and photo-sharing site Instagram claiming the bulk of users who share anything from political views to favorite r
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Cinema is not understood as a form of art in Saudi Arabia — Ahd Kamel
Saudi Gazette reporter Roberta Fedele, left, interviews Saudi actress and director Ahd Kamel on the success of her recently released short movie “Sanctity” and her experience and opinion about the movie industry and Saudi society. — SG photo Roberta Fedele Saudi Gazette
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Pen to Paper exhibition and Ayyam Gallery’s grand opening attractions of Jeddah Art Week
From left to right: Saudi Artist Qaswra Hafez, Founder of Ayyam Gallery Khaled Samawi, Founder of Ayyam Gallery Jouhayna Samawi, Sotheby’s International Contemporary Art Specialist Lina Lazaar Jameel. — SG photo by Roberta Fedele Roberta Fedele Saudi Gazette JEDDAH
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Grand Mufti: Luring women to incite resistance is unlawful
Abdullah Al-Dani
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Alsheikh, the Kingdom’s Grand Mufti, called on Muslims within their societies to protect the trust and stand shoulder to shoulder as a united entity against outside influences.
In a sermon at Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Mosque
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