10-year-old schoolboy defies armless disability

January 7, 2015, 1:00 pm

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  Saudi Gazette report  HOFUF, Al-Ahsa — Ayoub Al-Mahana was born without arms but he is able to go to school, read, write, eat, bathe, play football, talk on the telephone to his friends, act on the stage and fight with other boys using his feet without any help. Accordin

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Importer in hot water after distributing pork noodles

January 7, 2015, 1:00 pm

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  Saudi Gazette report   RIYADH — The trading establishment that imported and distributed noodles with pork ingredients will be referred to the Central Customs Committee that is considered an administrative court, Makkah daily reported on Wednesday. Spokesman for the Customs Department Isa Al

12 arrested in raid on liquor den in Qatif

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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     Saudi Gazette report  RIYADH – Anti-drug authorities in the Eastern Province have arrested 12 people, including four foreign workers, for smuggling and distributing liquor, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday. 

Two executed for murder, drug smuggling

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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   RIYADH — A Pakistani convicted of drug smuggling and a Saudi of murder were executed in Riyadh on Thursday, the Interior Ministry announced.  Saudi national Awida Utaibi was executed after a court found him guilty of murdering a relative, the ministry said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agen

Shoura Council to vote on seasonal work visas Monday

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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     Saad Al-Shamrani  Okaz/Saudi Gazette    RIYADH – The Shoura Council on Monday will vote on a draft law that will limit the maximum duration of work visas for seasonal and temporary j

My only sin is that I am an orphan

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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   Qaisar Hamid Metawea  Al Madinah Newspaper  The first words I remember hearing when I was growing up were: “He is an orphan.” I learned that I was an orphan and that I lived in an orphanage even before I knew my own name.

Mistreatment of women and children must stop!

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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       Sultan Abdulaziz Al-Anqari Al Madinah Newspaper    Violence against women and children is a global phenomenon that all societies, without exception, suffer from. It is also particularly

A marrige doomed to fail

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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     Saudi Gazette report  Parents often coerce their sons into marriage by citing traditional views that see marriage as a means to achieving wisdom and maturity.  Parents hope their sons will learn valuable life lessons from their future spouse

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Jail for denying visitation rights to ex

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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   RIYADH — A court has sent to jail a husband who refused to implement a ruling giving his ex-wife visitation rights to see her children. The family court in Riyadh had given the ex-wife the right to visit her children twice a week on Fridays

Haia to investigate attack on man

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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     RIYADH — Chairman of the Commission to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice (Haia) She

Shoura to question housing minister

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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    RIYADH — Minister of Housing Shuwaish Al-Duwaihi will be at the Shoura Council on Tuesday to answer questions by council members about the

Indonesians: Call house helps ‘sisters’

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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   JEDDAH — A number of Indonesian recruitment offices have asked their country’s Ministry of Manpower and Immigration to change the job title of female recruits to Saudi Arabia from housemaid or house help to “sister”. They

‘Pork noodles importer’ to face trial

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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  RIYADH — An importer that allegedly allowed noodles with pork ingredients to enter the Saudi market has been referred to the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution (BIP) along with four wholesale traders for questioning before facing a court trial on charges of commercial fraud and breaching the country’s regulations. An official source

Social Affairs ups monthly assistance

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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JEDDAH — The Social Affairs Ministry has increased the monthly social security assistance paid to low-income citizens to SR1,145 from SR800. Official spokesman of the ministry Khalid Al-Thibaiti said the annual assistance of SR10,400 to eligible individuals will be raised to SR30,000 when the number of his or her family members reaches 15 people. He said th

Project of the Century

January 8, 2015, 1:00 pm

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   Khalid Al-Humaidi and Khalid Al-Jabri Okaz/Saudi Gazette  Thousands of workers are in a race against time to complete the King Abdullah Project for Expansion of the Grand Mosque in Makkah before the stipulated deadline. Islam’s holiest mosque will have a capacity to accommodate as many as 2

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7 arrested over links to Arar attack

January 9, 2015, 1:00 pm

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   RIYADH — The Interior Ministry on Friday announced the arrests of three Saudis and four Syrians over links to Monday’s attack on Border Guards on the Kingdom’s frontier with Iraq, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Two Saudi Border Guards and their commanding officer were killed in the attack in Suwayf in the northe

3 Saudis, 4 Syrians arrested over links to border attack

January 9, 2015, 1:00 pm

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   RIYADH — Three Saudi nationals and four Syrians have been arrested over links to a suicide bombing and gun attack on the Kingdom's border with Iraq. Militants killed two Saudi Border Guards and their commanding officer in Monday's attack, the Interior Ministry said. On Friday, the Saudi Press Agency quoted an I

Breast cancer symposium starts today

January 9, 2015, 1:00 pm

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   RIYADH — The Ninth Middle East Best of San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium will start in Riyadh on Saturday. The two-day symposium will take place at the convention center of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Heath Sciences with the participation of more than 1,000 male and female doctors, including 50 world-renowned bre

Illiteracy among women drops to 8.63%

January 9, 2015, 1:00 pm

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   RIYADH — The illiteracy rate among women in the Kingdom stood at 8.63 percent in 2013, said Fawziya Al-Saqar, director for women’s education at the adult education department of the Ministry of Education. She said the huge decrease in adult illiteracy rate among women showed that the strategy for adult education designe

Housemaid arrested for torturing child

January 9, 2015, 1:00 pm

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   HAIL — A housemaid has been arrested in Hail for abusing and mistreating a child, said Hail Police spokesman Col. Abdulaziz Al-Zunaidi. The torture was captured on a video and circulated on social media websites. The video shows the maid, from an African country, kicking the child while he is lying on the floor.