Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company Prince Alwaleed bin Talal meets with Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Talmiz Ahmed. During the meeting, the ambassador expressed his government’s desire for the prince to further invest in India. (AN photo)
ALKHOBAR: Defendants in criminal cases are increasingly trying to prove they are not mentally sound to escape prison sentences, according to a report in Al-Riyadh newspaper.
JEDDAH: Residents in the city are urging the municipality to use the social networking site Facebook to name and shame restaurants that are unhygienic.
RIYADH: A major book fair opened here Tuesday, prodding people to seek knowledge, taste different cultures and understand the views of others.
RIYADH: A youth in his early 20s allegedly killed a housemaid with whom he had an affair in Dawadmi, 340 km away from Riyadh.
RIYADH: Stranded Filipino workers are complaining that two officials from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) in Jeddah are asking for money for their plane tickets so they can be repatriated.
JEDDAH: A Saudi official denied on Monday that the Kingdom had offered to give SR562.5 billion ($150 billion) to purchase Facebook.
ABHA: Following revelations that a significant number of people are committing benefits fraud, the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) has announced that it is taking action by scrapping the names of such people from the list of social security beneficiaries.
RIYADH: The overall performance of government employees is not at all satisfactory and should be improved at any cost, according to legislators and academics. They say much improvement can be made in their levels of productivity, discipline, professionalism and ability to embrace change.
RIYADH: The Riyadh International Book Fair 2011 is to be launched Tuesday with more than 700 publishing houses from 30 countries and over 280,000 books featuring.
JEDDAH: Unlike the growing number of Libyan diplomats around the world who have come out in favor of the Libyan uprising, the country's ambassador in Riyadh and its consul general in Jeddah continue to support the Qaddafi regime.
RIYADH: Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia on Monday expressed severe disappointment after hearing that Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay had canceled a planned visit to the Kingdom.
JEDDAH: Tabuk police arrested a Saudi man who reportedly killed another Saudi with a gun on Sunday. The shooting happened following a dispute between the two.
JEDDAH: The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) in Jazan is trying to convince a man to allow his 30-year-old daughter to marry.
AS a citizen who believes in the safety of drivers and others on the road, I am an admirer of the Saher traffic surveillance system, notwithstanding the huge dent it is making on my bank balance.
JEDDAH: Although a month has passed since the Jeddah floods, many of the streets in southern and eastern parts of the city remain full of potholes and with debris strewn everywhere. The residents of some districts also complain of sewage and rodents entering their homes.
JEDDAH: Employees in the private sector have appealed to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to take steps to raise their salaries along with a 15-percent pay hike for government employees.
JEDDAH: Several engineers and architects warned that a large number of buildings in Jeddah could collapse due to rising groundwater.
JEDDAH: The media will be allowed to cover the trial of suspects held for terrorism and state security-related cases, Justice Minister Muhammad Al-Eissa announced Sunday while opening a forum on justice and the media.
JEDDAH: Yanbu police on Sunday arrested three municipality street cleaners for breaking into a private rest house in the Sharm district of the city to steal valuables.
EARLIER this year before the latest flood in Jeddah, Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal said the districts of the south and east of Jeddah were more important to him than the district in which he lived. This comment indicated that the prince was very much concerned about these districts.
JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah held talks on Saturday with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on regional and international developments.
JEDDAH: Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Prince Mansour bin Miteb said the government is striving to make affordable housing plots available for citizens. The prince said the housing authority, which has many plots of land left over from older allocations, will strive to provide houses to as many citizens as possible in all provinces.
JEDDAH: Saudi scholars have declared their support for the ongoing people’s struggle against Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and expressed their concern at the violence unleashed by forces loyal to the embattled administration. The scholars made their position clear while responding to a recent statement by Qaddafi’s son Seif Al-Islam that before “the rebellion started, some religious preachers and scholars used to visit Libya to lick the boots of the Libyan leader.”
ALKHOBAR: Thousands of Eastern Province students will get to explore 25 different career paths during the Rawabi Talent Exhibit being held at Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Science and Technology Center (SciTech) through March 10.
JEDDAH: Improve on customer care was the final message of Saudi Arabian Airlines' annual conference that ended here Monday. Abdul Aziz Hazmi, deputy director general of the airline, emphasized this point further, saying: "We consider our passengers not just as our customers but as our guests."
JEDDAH: A massive campaign to clamp down on street beggars in Makkah province netted a large number of beggars across the region. Those arrested included men and women, many of whom have already been deported.
RIYADH: Anwar Muhammad Ibrahim has won the first prize of a new discounted subscription campaign of Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News. He received a Volvo 2011 car.
RIYADH/JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Tuesday received princes, Islamic scholars and a group of citizens who came to greet him following his safe return after a three-month-long medical trip abroad.
RIYADH: Officials at the Ministry of Health headquarters in Riyadh donated 450 pints of blood on Wednesday to commemorate the return of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.
JEDDAH: Khaled Al-Molhem, director general of Saudi Arabian Airlines, has emphasized his organization's strategic plans to become a customer-oriented airline, by improving its services in all operation areas matching SkyTeam alliance standards.
JEDDAH: Gulail is one of the worst flood-hit districts in southern Jeddah. The Jan. 26 floods caused severe damage on this old district, with many of the roads and streets still in bad shape. Residents of the area have lost patience with municipal authorities, who are yet to fulfill their promises to repair the roads, even after three weeks. They have decided to act and fix the roads themselves.
JEDDAH: A website has been launched for members of the public to lodge complaints about the services offered by different government departments and private companies and suggest solutions to resolve them.
MAKKAH: A massive fire that broke out in one of the towers of the King Abdul Aziz Endowment building — home to the tallest clock tower — in Makkah on Tuesday frightened pilgrims at the Grand Mosque.
RIYADH: Germany will grant 130 scholarships to officials working in the Ministry of Health to study in universities in Berlin.
