Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — The Supreme Judiciary Council is exploring the prospect of setting up special divisions at courts for handling cases involving teenagers and young women, according to a senior official.
Salman Al-Nashwan, secretary general of the council, said a council meeting, which began
Move under way to set up juvenile courts
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Kingdom, Portugal in healthcare cooperation
Saeed Al-Khotani Saudi Gazette RIYADH — Minister of Health Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah has signed an agreement with his Portuguese counterpart to facilitate cooperation in healthcare over the next five years. Al-Rabeeah announced the agreement, co-signed by Paulo Macedo on behalf of Portuga
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Indian mission to set up legal aid panel
RIYADH — The Embassy of India has urged all Indian nationals affected by the Nitaqat program to use the three-month grace period announced by Saudi Arabia to regularize their legal status for stay in Saudi Arabia. It also asked them to otherwise arrange their exit as per rules and regulations of the Kingdom.
The Embassy proposes to set up
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Inconveniences greet visitors to refurbished Jeddah Corniche
Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — The refurbished Jeddah Corniche presents some inconveniences although it was inaugurated only three months ago. During the recent school break, the area had an influx of visitors who were greeted with a number of inconveniences. Most of the public toilets were clo
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Shoura okays center for IT security
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — The Shoura Council on Sunday approved setting up of a national center for information security to protect websites and IT systems from hacking.
Fahaad Al-Hamad, assistant president of the Shoura, said at Sunday's session the council also listened to observ
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Women tell tales of taxi drivers
Drivers know that women in the Kingdom depend on them for transportation and so they demand exorbitant fares (Left), Drivers also try to befriend their women passengers and send them messages on “Whatsapp.” — Okaz photos Zain Anbar Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Women who rely
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Career day at Dammam tech college
Sultan Al-Sughair
Saudi Gazette
AL-KHOBAR — Eastern Province Emir Prince Saud Bin Naif opened the fourth technical and recruitment day on Sunday.
The two-day fair is organized by the Dammam Technical College (DTC) in Al-Khobar and has attracted the participation of 60 national companies.
The pri
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Top education officials have unrecognized PhDs
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH – As many as nine senior officials at the department of education in Riyadh are holding PhD degrees from universities not recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Al-Hayat newspaper reported Sunday quoting a department source.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity,
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‘Cell of 88’ plotted suicide missions abroad, court told
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Alleged members of a terror cell planned suicide missions in the US and several Gulf countries, especially against American expatriates, the Riyadh Criminal Court was told Sunday.
The court had convened to hear the various charges against the alleged members of the so-calle
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Superfluous recruitment policy
Abdo Khal
Okaz
The superfluous recruitment policy has saturated the Kingdom with about eight million expatriates. This is the accepted number for only the legal foreign manpower. Nobody knows the exact number of illegal ones. The majority of the foreign workers in the Kingdom are not skilled. They have been placed in posit
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Female nurses call for increased protection
Saudi Gazette report
TABUK — Female nurses are faced with many problems, such as deprivation of their rights, lack of training, and frequent physical assault and harassment.
Nada, a nurse at a hospital, said a woman visitor physically assaulted her when she told the woman that visiting hours were over and she
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King’s order a humanitarian act: Fakieh Details of rectifying expats’ status in a few days
Majed Al-Mafdhali Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Labor Minister Adel Fakieh has said the directive of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to give a three-month grace period to all expatriates to rectify their status was a wise decision that included three dimensions. Kin
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‘Society is still not ready to accept Saudi or Arab nurses’
Amal Al-Sibai
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — A nurse is a person who is by the patient’s side from the beginning to the end of the hospital experience, no matter how long or short the patient’s hospital stay is.
It is the nurse who is there to reassure the patient, console, comfort, talk, and eve
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Reckless driving: Businessman’s son gets jail, lashes
Abdulrahman Al-Ali
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – The Jeddah Summary Court on Wednesday sentenced the son of a businessman to 15 months in prison and 180 lashes for illegal possession of a machine gun and for violating traffic rules.
The court also ordered the youth's car impounded.
His a
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600,000 Burmese poised to replace illegal foreigners
JEDDAH – Some 600,000 Burmese nationals will replace illegal foreigners in various jobs after completion of ongoing procedures to correct their residency status, according to a senior Labor Ministry official.
Abdul Munem Al-Shahri, director of the Labor Office in Jeddah, said Wednesday the Burmese nationals living in the King
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Prince Khaled announces SR1b projects in Rabigh
Abdulrahman Al-Ali Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, Emir of Makkah, announced projects worth SR1.05 billion in the Rabigh governorate during an inspection tour on Wednesday. Chairing a meeting of the local council, Prince Khaled pointed out that the council’s
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90% inmates ‘return to normal life’ after rehab
Mishal Al-Otaibi
Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — Nearly 90 percent of inmates at Prince Muhammad Bin Naif Center for Counseling and Care were able to lead a normal life, according to the Ministry of Interior.
Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, the ministry’s security spokesman, said: &ldqu
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Embassy takes steps to help Indians during grace period
Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Indian Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao has discussed issues relating to the welfare of the Indian community in Saudi Arabia with Deputy Minister of Labor Mufarrej Haqbani.
During a meeting at the Labor Ministry in Riyadh on Monday, the ambassador welcomed the Saud
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Strict rules in place to curb fuel smuggling
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — The Ministry of Finance has instructed the customs directorates to apply strict procedures to curb fuel smuggling into neighboring countries.
This comes as fuel smuggling activities have increased to take advantage of the low government-subsidized fuel prices in th
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Nigerians pledge to help tackle crime
Badea Abu Al-Naja
Saudi Gazette
MAKKAH — Over 500 prominent members of the Nigerian community residing in Makkah province have pledged to cooperate with government agencies to maintain law and order and spread security awareness among the African communities in general.
They also pledged to cooperate w
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