Browsing Category
Local
Saudi Arabia’s Beit Hail festival attracts over 68,000 visitors
The third Beit Hail heritage festival, themed “Your Home Away From Home,” has attracted more than 68,000 visitors since its opening at Aja Park earlier this month, Saudi Press Agency reported.
The 30-day event has drawn visitors of all…
Read More...
Read More...
19,817 residency and labor violators arrested across KSA
In joint field campaigns across the Kingdom from July 11 to July 17, 19,817 people were arrested for violating residency, labor and border security laws.
This number included 12,436 violators of residency laws, 4,881 violators of…
Read More...
Read More...
More than 3m date palms in AlUla, latest report shows
The Royal Commission for AlUla has announced a substantial increase in the number of date palms in the region, which now totals 3.116 million. In March this year, the official figure given was “over 2 million.”
AlUla is one of the…
Read More...
Read More...
Jobs boost for Saudi citizens in engineering roles
Employment of Saudi citizens in the engineering sector is set to increase under plans announced by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.
In a joint initiative with the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and…
Read More...
Read More...
Saudi Arabia unveils Golden Pen fiction award with $690,00 prize pool
Saudi Arabia has launched an award for fiction writing, with winners sharing total prizemoney of $690,000 and successful works to be adapted into film.
Unveiling the Golden Pen Award for Novels on Saturday, Turki Alalshikh, chairman of…
Read More...
Read More...
KSrelief continues aid projects in Lebanon, Pakistan
Saudi aid group, KSrelief, has distributed 25,000 bags of bread in Akkar Governorate and Miniyeh District in Lebanon.
The distribution comes as part of KSrelief’s Al-Amal Charitable Bakery project to support Syrian and Palestinian…
Read More...
Read More...
Saudi Arabia, MWL welcome ICJ ruling on Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories
Saudi Arabia has welcomed a ruling by the UN’s top court that Israel’s settlement policy on Palestinian territory breaks international law.
The Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement that the Kingdom welcomed the advisory opinion by…
Read More...
Read More...
Saudi Central Bank says unaffected by global tech outage
The Saudi Central Bank, or SAMA, assured the public on Friday that its national payment and banking infrastructure systems were unaffected by the worldwide tech outage that disrupted industries, from travel to finance.
A software update…
Read More...
Read More...
Saudi economy minister in talks with IMF managing director
Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Faisal bin Fadel Alibrahim met with Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
Talks focused on global and regional growth prospects amid the latest economic…
Read More...
Read More...
Saudi Shoura Council speaker discusses parliamentary relations with Bahraini counterpart
Saudi Shoura Council Speaker Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Sheikh met with his Bahraini counterpart Ali bin Saleh Al-Saleh in Manama. The meeting was part of an official visit by the Saudi speaker to Bahrain, and was held in the presence of the…
Read More...
Read More...