Channel: Saudi Gazette - Kingdom
Saudization not by force
Abdullah Abu Al-Samh Okaz newspaper LABOR Minister Adel Fakieh has become a star in the local press and not a day passes without his pictures and statements in print. Fakieh makes...
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Crown Prince Salman receives Director of World Food Program
Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense, receives Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of World Food Program (WFP), in Riyadh on Tuesday....
View ArticleForum to recommend ways to improve disabled access
Hussein Abu Al-Sibaa Saudi Gazette RIYADH — A global forum on comprehensive accessibility has wound up its two-day deliberations in Riyadh on Monday and will...
View ArticleMakkah to hire 5 contracting firms for city cleaning
Abdullah Al-Dhubyani Okaz/Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — The Makkah Mayoralty will sign contracts with five cleaning companies when its agreement with its current contractor...
View ArticleSuspect in Yemeni’s murder turns himself in
Badea Abu Al-Naja Okaz/Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — A 20-year-old citizen has turned himself in to Makkah’s Al-Kakiah police station eight hours after the murder of a...
View ArticleEgyptian expats begin voting in referendum
Hussein Abu Al-Sibaa Saudi Gazette RIYADH – Egyptian expatriates living in the Kingdom started casting their votes in the country’s constitutional referendum on Wednesday....
View ArticleBaby poisoning case adjourned to next month
DAMMAM — The General Court in Dammam on Tuesday adjourned for the third time the case of an Indonesian maid who was charged with killing a four-month-old baby in her care...
View ArticleMurder suspect arrested in east Riyadh
Mishal Al-Otaibi Saudi Gazette RIYADH — Search and investigation teams from east Riyadh’s Al-Khaleej neighborhood police station arrested a Saudi citizen accused of...
View ArticleThird Civil Status office opens in Jeddah
JEDDAH — Director General for Civil Status in Makkah Province Ghazi Al-Bisheri opened a third Civil Status office in north Jeddah on Tuesday. The office started receiving...
View ArticleReporters barred from airport as disabled children arrive in Tabuk
Saudi Gazette report TABUK/MADINAH — While officials at Prince Muhammad Airport in Madinah allowed the press to cover the departure of the second batch of the physically challenged...
View ArticleYemeni pair caught stealing perfumes worth SR200,000
Abdurahman Al-Ali Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – Police patrols in Jeddah caught two Arab youths red-handed with perfumes worth SR200,000 that they had stolen from a shop in north...
View ArticlePrison, lashes, deportation for handbag mugger
Abdulrahman Al-Ali Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – The District Court in Jeddah has sentenced an Arab expatriate to imprisonment, lashes and deportation after he was convicted of a series of...
View ArticleMan killed Pakistani for ‘smoking outside mosque’
Hatem Al-Masoudi Okaz/Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Makkah police have referred a man accused of murdering two people in the city’s Al-Ghassalah neighborhood mosque to...
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Prince Alwaleed receives Executive Director of the UN World Food Program
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Chairman of Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, and Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel, Vice Chairwoman and Secretary-General of the Foundation, receive Ertharin...
View ArticleNumber of Saudi female prisoners drops
Nader Al-Enezi Okaz/Saudi Gazette TABUK — There has been a decline in the number of Saudi female prisoners, the prisons director has claimed. Director of...
View ArticleFamilies start flocking to Jeddah’s seafront again
Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH – Residents of Jeddah started flocking back to the North Corniche, which was closed to the public nearly two years ago for a massive overhaul of the...
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Water mixed with leaking fuel causes alarm
Ibrahim Shehab Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Ground water is getting mixed with leaking fuel from a petrol station in Jeddah’s Al-Marwah 3 district, local residents...
View ArticleAbsence of traffic cops deepens chaos on streets
Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — Despite the launch of awareness campaigns, doubling of traffic fines and installation of surveillance cameras, the Kingdom’s streets are...
View ArticleWe have no right to object
Saeed Al-Siraihi Okaz newspaper NO one has the right to protest when he or she comes to know that the remittances made by expatriates and foreign contractors to their respective...
View ArticleAviation firms seek tax cuts to boost sector
Fatima Muhammad Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – An international aviation conference at Jeddah Hilton has managed to facilitate around 130 agreements related to the sector between...
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