Entrepreneurship Week in Jeddah starts February 17
Saleh Fareed Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Jeddah Entrepreneurship Week 2014 will be held for the first time to inspire young Saudis through local, national and global activities designed to...
View ArticleWinter ailments up as EP is hit by cold weather
Faisal Aboobacker Ponnani Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — As temperatures drop in the Eastern Province, more and more people are catching diseases associated with the cold weather. Common colds or...
View ArticleCrown Prince receives minister of religious affairs of the Sultanate of...
Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, deputy premier and minister of defense, receives Dr. Hajji Muhammad Hajji Abdulrahman, minister of religious affairs of the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. The...
View ArticleResidents upset as mental patients roam Asir streets
Saudi Gazette report ABHA — The number of mental patients roaming Asir streets has been on the rise, worrying residents, Makkah daily reported. These patients are usually found around...
View ArticleRiyadh youths spend free time at the ‘bachelor pad’
Mohammed Alshoaiby Saudi Gazette RIYADH — If movies and television have taught us anything about being a man in the Western world, it is that by the age of 18, whether for a job or for...
View ArticleWhy cannot Saudi women issue their own passports?
Haya Al-Manie Al-Riyadh Officials at the Passports Department are working hard to facilitate services for citizens and expatriates by providing the “Absher” online service where...
View ArticleIllegals want to go home
Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — A number of residency regulation violators said they have been moving freely in the Al-Harazat District after a long time due to “a notable decrease...
View ArticleCable thieves arrested in Buraidah
BURAIDAH — Search and investigation teams have detained four expatriates suspected of stealing electric cables. A spokesman for Qassim Police Capt. Badr Al-Sehaibani said the suspects were...
View ArticleLiquor smuggling foiled at Batha checkpoint
RIYADH — Customs officers at Al-Batha border checkpoint have foiled an attempt to smuggle of 2,244 bottles of liquor into the country. Acting head of Al-Batha Customs Eid Al-Enezi said the...
View ArticleSuspects in school fire detained
MADINAH — Search and investigation teams from Madinah Police detained several people suspected of starting a fire at Ibn Al-Haytham Intermediate School. They were detained within two hours of...
View ArticleFemale students escape accident unharmed
MAJMAA — A bus carrying female students collided with a water tanker, but all 25 students on board escaped unharmed. The bus was taking students to their homes after school. The students were...
View ArticleSaudi detained over friend's murder
MADINAH — Police have arrested a Saudi suspected of murdering his 21-year-old friend. Madinah Police spokesman Col. Fahd Al-Ghannam said a citizen had notified police that his brother was...
View ArticleFire destroys car workshop
BAHA — Several residents of a residential building in Baha were evacuated as a safety precaution after a car workshop operating on the building’s ground floor caught fire. Baha...
View Article3 paramedics hurt as ambulance crashes into truck
TAIF — An ambulance crashed into a truck on Qeya Road, south of Taif, injuring a number of paramedics. The ambulance, which was not carrying any patients, was on its way from Misan Hospital...
View ArticleSR340m spent on Tabuk roads
TABUK — The Municipality of Tabuk allocated SR340 million over the past four years for road projects in the city of Tabuk. Mayor Mohammed Bin Abdulhadi Al-Omari said the municipality is...
View ArticleTraders defy ban, import used tires
RIYADH — Used tires worth SR6.4 billion were imported into the Kingdom in 2012 despite a ban on such imports, Al-Eqtisadiah daily reported. Imports of new tires were only worth SR1.6 billion...
View ArticleEP signs new water contracts
DAMMAM — Contracts worth more than SR42 million for water and sanitation projects in the Eastern Province have been signed with national companies. Five of the contracts were signed recently...
View ArticlePrincess Adelah tours Madinah heritage sites
RIYADH — Princess Adelah Bint Abdullah, president of the Saudi Heritage Preservation Society, paid a visit on Tuesday to Madinah's heritage sites and museums. The princess expressed thanks to...
View ArticleSpeaker receives Ethiopian envoy
RIYADH — Shoura Council Speaker Sheikh Abdullah Al-Asheikh received on Wednesday Ethiopian Ambassador Mohammed Hassan Kabeera to review a number of issues of common interest between the...
View ArticleThanima organizes cultural programs as part of its ‘Ideal Family’ campaign
Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — The Keralite expatriate organization Thanima’s Jeddah Rowais area organized cultural programs and competitions as part of its "Ideal...
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