Makkah street cleaners stop work again
Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH — Dozens of cleaners have stopped cleaning Makkah streets in protest at delayed wages and renewal of residency permits. The Makkah mayoralty had to sign an...
View ArticleOver 90 illegal foreigners netted in Makkah sweep
Fahd Al-Manaee Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Ninety-three illegal male and female foreigners were picked up before dawn Saturday in a campaign launched by the passport police at various districts in...
View ArticleRiyadh court rules against gender-mixing in schools
Saudi Gazette report RIYADH – The Administrative Court in Riyadh has revoked a decision taken by the Ministry of Education allowing boys to study in elementary schools for girls. Issuing the...
View ArticleGovt officials convicted in land scam
Abdulrahman Al-Ali Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Administrative Court in Jeddah convicted a number of people, including officials at a notary public office in Makkah province, of forging...
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Prisons chief: Officers caught sneaking in drugs face severe punishment
Maj. Gen. Ali Al-HarthyAbdul Rahman Al-Shamrani Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — The director general of Saudi prisons, Maj. Gen. Ali Al-Harthy, said any officer attempting to sneak drugs in to...
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A smoke alarm in every home
Amal Al-Sibai Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The director of Jeddah Civil Defense, Turki Al-Harthi, inaugurated the fire safety awareness campaign launched by Saudi Aramco, under the theme of...
View ArticleBogus Hai’a member held for rape attempt
Mashour Al-Shehri Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — Police have arrested a man who allegedly kidnapped an 18-year-old girl and tried to rape her while impersonating an officer from the Commission...
View ArticleAgricultural investment abroad
Abid Khazandar Al-Riyadh I wrote an article about the complaints of rice importers against India, which doubled the price of basmati rice in complete disregard to the previous contracts it had signed...
View ArticleThe great wall of the south
Khaled Al-Sulaiman Okaz I strongly support the idea of constructing a security fence along the Saudi-Yemeni border. However, the common belief that this fence alone will prevent the infiltrators and...
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Prince Sultan Bin Salman visits Heritage exhibition in Tabuk
Prince Sultan Bin Salman, President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), visits a pavilion at the heritage exhibition organized on the sidelines of the Sixth...
View ArticleSaudi shot dead by relative in Madinah
MADINAH — A Saudi in his 60s was shot dead allegedly by a relative in Madinah’s Al-Harrah Al-Sharqiyah neighborhood on Monday morning. The killing is believed to be the result of a...
View Article10-yr jail for armed robber
Mishal Al-Otaibi Saudi Gazette RIYADH — The Riyadh General Court has sentenced a Saudi to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for committing a series of armed robberies, local media reported...
View ArticleRussian roulette game turns fatal
ABHA — A young man died when he shot himself with a gun while playing Russian roulette with his friends. The victim and his friends were waiting for a barbershop to open, when he put a bullet...
View ArticleWoman dies after eating seafood
MAKKAH — An Arab woman died and five others were seriously poisoned after eating a home-cooked fish meal in Makkah. They reportedly purchased the fish and cooked it at home and felt stomach...
View ArticleTIPS model entrance exam on Friday
JEDDAH — Focus International will conduct the fourth TIPS medical-engineering model entrance examination on Friday. The exam will be held at selected centers all over the GCC states,...
View ArticleNine-year-old killed in swing accident
RIYADH — A nine-year-old child died in a tragic swing accident in Dharma governorate, 50 km west of Riyadh. The child was playing with his friends on a homemade swing, which was made of two...
View ArticleStudent dies on Abha university campus
ABHA — There were conflicting reports on the death of a university student at King Khalid University in Abha on Tuesday. Rumors spread that he fell off a building, although speculation is...
View ArticleAttempted assault on Umrah pilgrim foiled
Nayef Al-AliOkaz/Saudi GazetteMADINAH — Police patrols arrested a man who allegedly assaulted a South African woman who was on an Umrah visit.Hafiz Yousef of South Africa said he left Makkah with his...
View ArticleFamily implicates hospital in death of breadwinner
Abdulrahman Al-Ali Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — A medical technical committee on Tuesday began looking into a case filed by a Saudi family which implicated a private hospital in the death of...
View Article3 teens in ‘Ethiopian’ kidnapping hoax held
Saudi Gazette report BAHA — Three teenagers who claimed they had been attacked by an Ethiopian gang were arrested by Al-Baha police after it was discovered they had made up the story,...
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