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Open day activity to celebrate closing of schools
An open day activity was organized by SABIC in collaboration with INSAN Charity, and DAR (Social Education House for Boys) to celebrate closing of schools with the orphans. The open day provided an...
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650-meter long Asir bridge opens
Nadiah Al-Fawwaz Saudi Gazette ABHA — The Asir Municipality has completed the bridge at the intersection between Bani Malik Road and Al-Hizam ring road in Abha. It has been opened for use...
View ArticleDragsters detained in Riyadh
Mishal Al-Otaibi Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — Traffic police in Riyadh have detained 79 dragsters and confiscated 130 cars used for drag racing. Of the detained, 14 adolescents were admitted...
View ArticleDoctor admits performing 47 circumcisions
Saudi Gazette report MADINAH — A doctor in a private hospital has admitted to performing 47 circumcision procedures, of which at least seven were botched and...
View ArticleNegligence claims against eye hospital probed
Husain Hazzazi & Ibrahim Shehab Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Ministry of Health has formed a committee to investigate complaints from more than 20 employees of a Jeddah-based eye...
View ArticleSchools struggling to cope with the hot sun
Hassan Cheruppa Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — As the scorching heat this week soared above 45 degrees Celsius, most of the international Indian schools in the city have developed emergency plans to...
View ArticleSaudi students in US forced to fly Saudia
Saudi Gazette report DAMMAM — A number of Saudi students studying in America were unable to come home during the summer vacation because they were forced by the...
View ArticleTeach them to tell the truth
Saleh Ibrahim Al-Turigee Okaz IN a radio program I presented on Saudi radio last week, I asked some Saudi students who studied abroad to tell the listeners about their...
View ArticleDomestic violence allowed between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.
Mohammed Al-Harbe Okaz THE toll free number 919, which people use to inform about cases of domestic violence, is not any different from the other toll free numbers of the...
View ArticleJawazat flayed for failing to reduce crowds
Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) on Wednesday appealed to the Directorate General of Passports (Jawazat) to work quickly to reduce the large crowds...
View ArticleKFSC holds graduation ceremony
RIYADH — Minister of Interior Prince Muhammad Bin Naif patronized Wednesday evening the graduation ceremony of students from Riyadh’s King Fahd Security College (KFSC) that...
View ArticleCar runs over Asian worker
JEDDAH — An Asian worker was killed after being run over by a speeding car as he was trying to cross the main road in Bahra. His body was taken to a mortuary, and police are searching for the...
View ArticleSaudi threatens to commit suicide
HAIL — A Saudi man threatened to commit suicide by jumping off a building at Hail University if it did not accept him for a master’s course. The man climbed to the top of the...
View ArticleSix killed in bus accident
MAKKAH — Six pilgrims were killed and 22 others injured when a bus carrying pilgrims from Madinah to Makkah crashed on the side of the road. Four of the six victims were Egyptian. According...
View ArticleBengali resident dies mysteriously
MADINAH — The body of a 46-year-old Bengali resident was admitted to Madinah’s King Fahd Hospital, but it is not clear how he died. A coroner has been assigned to conduct an autopsy...
View ArticlePolice probe theft of SR17,500 from car
MADINAH — Police in Madinah are investigating the theft of SR17,500 from a 52-year-old Turkish resident’s car. The victim reported the crime to Aqiq Police after finding his...
View ArticleGuinness World Records Challenge Fair kicks off
Samar Yahya Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Arabian Centers Co. held a press conference at Mall of Arabia to announce its exclusive show during summer. Arabian Centres Co. Ltd...
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Al Ryan hosts ‘Geet and Ghazal Night’
JEDDAH — In continuation of its 20th anniversary celebration, Al Ryan International Polyclinic organized its third cultural program “Geet and Ghazal...
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Dalia Darwish introduces Dolly
Mariam Nihal Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — “Dolly” is a local name synonymous with fashionable Thobes alongside ingenious and arty canvas...
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‘Readers make writers and writers make readers’
Amal Al-Sibai Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Writing is an art that is on the verge of becoming extinct and lost forever. Students in most of the schools here in the Kingdom are...
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