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Every parent’s nightmare

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Saudi Gazette report Children are the greatest blessing from Allah and are a source of joy for parents, especially when their first child is born. But parents can inadvertently harm their children by spoiling them excessively and being overprotective. Such children often grow up expecting to get anything they want and struggle to be responsible,

Helping Saudi women into work is big business — for one man

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Peter Harrison Four years ago, against the advice of his family and friends, Khalid Alkhudair quit his executive post to set up Glowork, a website aimed at helping Saudi women into work. He faced an uphill struggle when he first started as the Kingdom was still dominated by a vocal group of conservatives opposed to the expansion o

Scholarships to Arab universities halted

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   HAIL — The Ministry of Education has stopped scholarship programs for post-graduate studies in all Arab universities due to poor academic standards. Dr. Hamad Muhammad Al-Asheikh, deputy minister for general education, has issued directives to all regions and governorates to stop sending Saudi students on government scho

Expats with expired iqamas to be deported

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   MADINAH — Director General of Passports Maj. Gen. Sulaiman Al-Yahya has said expatriates who have been arrested with expired residency permits (iqamas) will be deported immediately unless there is a valid reason preventing the renewal.  He said expatriates who have been reported by their sponsors of absconding will also

Five wanted Saudis surrender

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   SHAROURAH — The deteriorating security situation in Yemen has led five Saudis wanted for criminal offenses to surrender to security authorities at the Kingdom’s southern border. A joint security committee comprising several security bodies in Sharourah governorate received the five men, who included a father and son.

Liquor pond found in Khamis Mushayt

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   ABHA — A joint team of the anti-alcohol unit and the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) uncovered a pond flowing with liquor outside Khamis Mushayt city. Haia spokesman Awad Al-Asmari said the teams were tracking bootleggers in the eastern part of Khamis Mushayt governorate, which led to the d

New curbs on seminars and expos

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   DAMMAM — The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) has instructed hotels in the country not to hold commercial, consumer and charitable exhibitions as well as conferences, forums, symposia, seminars, meetings, workshops and training courses unless the service seeker has obtained a legal license from the National Program for Exh

No coronavirus cases reported in Makkah

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   MAKKAH — Director of Makkah Health Affairs Dr. Abdullah Al-Muallim has said no coronavirus cases have been reported in the holy city of Makkah so far. He said Emir of Makkah Prince Khaled Al-Faisal had issued directives to transfer all cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the region to the newly established

Islamic dialogue can solve the major problems of society

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  Omar Abdullah Kamil Makkah   Over the past few years, the Muslim world has experienced a number of difficulties in the form of fundamentalism, extremism and terrorism. All of these concepts are caused by excessiveness and improper interpretation of religious texts. Many people are inclined

Why aren’t some husbands courageous enough to take a second wife?

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  Ali Al-Jahli Al Eqtisadiah   The other day, a friend expressed regret that he did not have the courage to take a second wife. He explained that even though he was physically and financially able to marry, he was not brave enough to do so. This is perhaps the most common excuse that men cite when explaini

Cinema, music and the rapidly changing world of Saudi youth

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  Raja Albo’ali Al Sharq   In today’s world, everything is changing rapidly and new developments are taking place daily. We witness sweeping changes in different fields within our daily lives. Young men and women are the ones usually leading such changes because they are attracted to new and un

The fault is not in our stars ...

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  Renad Ghanem and Shahd Alhamdan Saudi Gazette   THOUGH Saudis generally avoid reading horoscopes due to religious reasons, there are a good number of people in the Kingdom who make decisions relating to important matters such as marriage by seeing what the horoscopes say. Muslim scholars say that only God

The cost of mass deportation

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  Ibrahim Alawi Okaz/Saudi Gazette   THE Shumaisy Deportation Center has been receiving new groups of inmates who have been caught in the massive crackdown against violators of labor and residency regulations that began across the Kingdom last week. Established ahead of a similar campaign in November 2013 an

Accident kills man, injures six others

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RIYADH — A man was killed and six of his family members injured when the car they were traveling in toppled over on Dammam-Riyadh Highway. Riyadh Red Crescent spokesman Abdullah Al-Muraibidh said one of the passengers died on the spot while three of the passengers sustained severe injuries with one of them in critical condition. The injuries of the other

Two missing men found in desert

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QURAYYAT — Nukhbat Al-Shamal volunteer group found two men who were reported missing after a sandstorm hit the area on Friday. The group’s leader, Abdulhakim Al-Khilewi, said volunteers had been searching for the men since Friday morning and they finally found them in the middle of the desert next to their vehicle.

Warehouses, eateries shut down in Tabuk

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TABUK — The municipality here shut down four warehouses storing food products after multiple health violations were found. Abdulaziz Al-Atawi, director in charge of markets at Tabuk Municipality, said the municipality seized 2.5 tons of meat and vegetables, 3.5 tons of flour and 980 kg of sugar. The municipality also shut down two restaurants that bought

Teenager stabbed to death by schoolmate

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AL-KHURMAH — A 17-year-old high school student was killed during a fight after being stabbed with a sharp object by an 18-year-old student. Al-Khurma Red Crescent said the victim was stabbed by a sharp object. He was taken to King Abdulaziz Hospital where he underwent seven operations over 12 hours but his condition deteriorated and he died shortly afterw

Narcotic pills seized from bus passenger

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TABUK — Saudi Customs seized 48,332 amphetamine pills from a bus carrying 44 passengers at Halat Ammar on the Kingdom’s border with Jordan. Halat Ammar Customs spokesman Fihad Al-Harbi said the pills were found with one of the passengers on the bus and he had the pills stashed in a plastic basket he was carrying. Al-Harbi said the man concealed the

Nine cars catch fire in Makkah

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MAKKAH — Nine cars caught fire behind Binladin Mosque in Al-Hafayer District Friday afternoon. Makkah Civil Defense spokesman Capt. Naif Al-Shareef said the Civil Defense extinguished the fire and no injuries were reported. Makkah has been experiencing strong winds lately. The fire started in a garbage truck and fanned by gusty winds spread to the other c

Afghan president arrives in Jeddah

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Afghanistan President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani arrived in Jeddah on Saturday evening. He was received by Jeddah Governor Prince Mishal Bin Majed and a number of officials. — SPA
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