The Haia and Twitter vices
Lulu Al-Hubaishi Al-Madina The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) was praised for its recent decision to allocate a team to combat cybercrimes and go after some...
View ArticleThe rights of housemaids
Daliya Qazzaz Al-Hayat An Asian housemaid started showing signs of psychiatric problems a few days after her arrival in the Kingdom. She insisted to go back home at once. The employer spared no efforts...
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Exercising a choice
Saudi Gazette report With the modern generation getting more and more exercise conscious in a bid to revel in the health benefits, both men and women have taken to walking and exercising in good...
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Lack of rescue, first-aid culture in Saudi society
Saudi Gazette report Some of the fire and flooding incidents during the past few years have exposed the low level or even lack of rescue and first-aid culture within Saudi society, Al-Riyadh daily...
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Will CCTV cameras in schools improve discipline?
Saudi Gazette report The recent assault and harassment incidents in the Kingdom’s schools have raised the question of whether installing CCTV cameras in schools will help alleviate such...
View ArticleHousekeeper detained for practicing sorcery
MADINAH – Police apprehended an Indonesian woman for allegedly practicing black magic in Tabuk. Lt. Col. Khalid Al-Ghaban, spokesman for Tabuk Police, said the woman, who...
View ArticleElectrical short causes restaurant fire
AL-BAHA – Civil Defense firefighters battled a fire that broke out in a restaurant. No one was injured in the fire, which started when an electric wire shorted out. The...
View ArticleBorder Guards arrest 66 Egyptian fishermen
JAZAN — Border Guards in Jazan took into custody 66 Egyptian fishermen for allegedly crossing into Saudi territorial waters illegally, according to Border Guard spokesman...
View ArticleHaia member attacked at girls school
UHUD RUFAIDAH — A member of the Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) was assaulted Thursday while on duty, according to Haia spokesman...
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Crackdown continues!
Police netted 141 illegal workers of various Asian nationalities during a crackdown campaign in Jubail on Friday. Police combed several locations and raided houses sheltering...
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5 students hurt as bus crashes into machine
ABHA — Five female students sustained moderate injuries when a minibus carrying 23 passengers crashed into a hydraulic borewell drilling machine on Al-Badadah Road in the...
View ArticlePsych warns against social media addiction
JAZAN – A psychologist has warned the public against getting addicted to social media. Ilham Hassan said addiction to social networking sites is posing a grave danger...
View ArticleThe elderly can ask govt for assistants
DAMMAM – The nursing supervisor in the medical programs in Al-Qatif, Naima Al-Abdul Rabb Al-Ali, said old people who do not have anyone to care for them have the right to...
View ArticleNazaha to seek help of ‘female friends’
JANADRIYA – The National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha) intends to open women’s departments in the commission to boost its efforts to uncover possible...
View ArticleEP emir launches Ahsa shelter home
HOFOUF – Emir of the Eastern Province Prince Saud Bin Naif launched on Thursday Aisha Al-Rashed Shaml Home for the care of girls in Al-Ahsa governorate. Built on a 5,500...
View ArticlePolio vaccination drive begins today
MAKKAH – Emir of Makkah Prince Mishal Bin Abdullah is scheduled to launch the poliomyelitis vaccination campaign at the governorate office in Makkah on Sunday in the...
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Bangladesh mission marks Martyrs Day
RIYADH — The Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh commemorated the Great Martyrs Day and International Mother Language Day at the chancery premises on Friday in a befitting...
View Article417 expats among 2,500 in jail on security grounds
Mansour Al-Sheheri Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — Police detained two Iranian nationals for security reasons. Procedures are being finalized to refer one of the...
View Article13 govt bodies in Hail still without women’s sections
Saudi Gazette report HAIL — A survey by the women and children center of the high commission for the development of Hail showed that the lack of women employees...
View Article70% medical errors occur in delivery rooms, says official
Saudi Gazette report DAMMAM — Medical errors during delivery top the list of medical mistakes in Saudi hospitals, according to a legal consultant at the Shariah...
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