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Articles of the author Mohammed Al Shahrani
First batch of 196 Saudis stranded in Bahrain arrives in 12 buses
Okaz/Saudi Gazette AL-KHOBAR — The first batch of 196 Saudis who were stranded in Bahrain arrived in the Kingdom on Tuesday. They crossed King Fahd Causeway, which connects the Kingdom and Bahrain, on board a convoy of 12 buses, according to sources (...)

08 - 04 - 2020
Saudi Arabia and the big tourist cake
ACCORDING to 2018 World Tourism Organization (WTO) data, the contribution of the tourist sector to global GDP was about 10.4 percent representing more than eight trillion dollars. At the level of labor markets, the contribution of tourism in the (...)

02 - 11 - 2019
Expat students with expired iqamas to be enrolled in schools: MoE
Okaz/Saudi Gazette TAIF — The Ministry of Education has decided to enable expatriate students whose Iqamas have expired to be enrolled in schools and to continue their studies until the end of the academic year. The decision was urgently conveyed (...)

04 - 09 - 2019
Couple drowned in valley water in Taif
Okaz/Saudi Gazette TAIF — A couple drowned in the valley water in Taif on Sunday. Col. Saeed Sarhan, spokesman of the Makkah Civil Defense, said bodies of a man and his wife were pulled out of the muddy water after hours of continued search. Several (...)

03 - 09 - 2019
Expat remittance drops 5.86% to SR11.46 billion in July
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The remittances of expatriates in Saudi Arabia dropped by 5.86% year-on-year in July 2019 to SR 11.46 billion, compared to SR 12.17 billion in July 2018. In the first quarter of 2019, remittances from Saudi Arabia fell by (...)

02 - 09 - 2019
Woman in scootie renting business attacked in Jazan
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JAZAN — A group of young men attacked a woman involved in scootie renting business in Jazan. Timely rescue by security guards saved the life of the woman who was thrashed several times by the rowdy group. A video clip of the (...)

18 - 08 - 2019
British consul general lauds Haj services
Okaz / Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — British consul general in Jeddah, Seif Usher, has expressed his country's determination to expand its close cooperation with the Kingdom in all the initiatives of its Vision 2030. Speaking to Okaz, he said Britain would (...)

13 - 08 - 2019
France rejects politicization of Haj: Consul general
Okaz / Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — France's Consul General to the Kingdom Mustafa Mihraje has said his country totally rejects the politicization of the Haj. "This is a religious event which should not be politicized," he said. The consul said there are (...)

12 - 08 - 2019
Kingdom imports more than four million sheep in seven months
Okaz / Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Saudi Arabia has imported 4.1 million heads of sheep during the period January-July 2019 through the Jeddah Islamic Seaport with an increase of 21 percent over the same period last year, according to the Saudi Ports (...)

10 - 08 - 2019
Recruitment offices face fine for failure to receive arriving maids
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Ministry of Labor and Social Development has made it mandatory on recruitment offices and companies to receive the housemaids who are arriving in the Kingdom for the first time warning them that failure to do so will (...)

30 - 07 - 2019
Ethiopian maids to be here soon following successful negotiations
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Ministry of Labor and Social Development will lift the ban on the recruitment of Ethiopian housemaids on Sunday following successful negotiations between Riyadh and Addis Ababa on the modalities which continued for (...)

27 - 07 - 2019
Saudi gets prison, lashes for breaking expat's teeth
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Criminal Court in Dammam has sentenced a young Saudi man in his 20s to one month in prison, 50 whip lashes to be applied at once and asked him to pay SR126,000 in compensation for breaking the teeth of a nine-year-old (...)

24 - 07 - 2019
Labor minister intervenes to end Unified Recruitment Contract rift
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Minister of Labor and Social Development, Ahmed Al-Rajhi, is scheduled to meet with the representatives of the local recruitment offices to discuss the implications of the new Unified Recruitment Contract (URC) which the (...)

09 - 07 - 2019
Saudi recruitment offices determined to challenge new contract conditions
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The National Recruitment Committee in the Saudi Council of Chambers is determined to take steps against the adamance of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development to go ahead with its decision to implement a new unified (...)

06 - 07 - 2019
Saudi ministry adamant on enforcing unified contract for housemaids
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The unified recruitment contract for household workers has finally been uploaded onto the Ministry of Labor and Social Development's Musaned e-gate after a delay of 24 hours. The format of the contract, which should have (...)

03 - 07 - 2019
Unified Contract: Ministry having second thoughts?
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Musanid e-portal of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development is yet to have the provision of Unified Contract (UC) for recruitment of housemaids. The contract was to be implemented from Monday. Industry sources (...)

02 - 07 - 2019
Expatriate remittances drop by 21.6% in May
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Remittances by expatiates have dropped by about 21.6 percent in May, 2019 reaching SR9.99 billion compared to SR12.75 billion the same month last year, according to Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA). The authority (...)

01 - 07 - 2019
Saudi agents reject new conditions, halt maid recruitment
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Saudi recruitment offices have decided not to accept any new applications to recruit housemaids from Monday. The decision came in protest against an article in the unified contract, which requires them to pay a fine equal (...)

30 - 06 - 2019
Scorching sun in Jazan keeping people indoors
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JAZAN — The temperature reached 46 degrees at mid-day in Jazan on Sunday amid scorching sun and dust. Life came to a standstill and the streets were empty of cars and pedestrians. The hot temperature, the scorching sun and the (...)

24 - 06 - 2019
700 Saudi recruitment offices seek review of uniform contract
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Around 700 Saudi recruitment offices have objected to some provisions in the uniform contract for the recruitment of domestic workers, approved by Minister of Labor and Social Development Ahmed Al-Rajhi. In a letter (...)

27 - 05 - 2019
Heavy rain triggers flash floods in southern Saudi Arabia, boy missing
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JAZAN — Civil Defense teams assisted by a number of volunteers are continuing their search for the third consecutive day for a young boy who was washed away by flash floods in Wadi Al-Aridah in Jazan following heavy rain in the (...)

26 - 05 - 2019
TASI crosses 9,300 points, highest since July 2015
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia's stock market registered trading worth about SR2.5 billion on Sunday, with the benchmark Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) crossing 9,300 points for the first time since July 2015. This was attributed mainly to (...)

28 - 04 - 2019
Search continues for missing Saudi businessman in Uganda
Okaz/Saudi Gazette TABUK — The last telephone call Muzakar Al-Subaie made to his wife was on Saturday, following which a companion repeated the number telling the wife that her husband slipped into Victoria Lake and was missing since then. Manahi (...)

08 - 04 - 2019
Moving sand on street puts lives of schoolgirls in danger
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DHIBA — School bus driver Mohammed Salim will never forget the moment when the tires of his bus carrying secondary school girls in Dhiba, Tabuk, suddenly plunged deep into the ground, leaving them stuck in the middle of the (...)

06 - 04 - 2019
Schoolteacher in trouble after taking kids to witness washing of the dead
Okaz/Saudi Gazette TAIF — A teacher in an intermediate school in Taif is being investigated for taking his students to a place for washing the dead to show them practically how the bodies are washed and wrapped for burial. Awwad Al-Khidaidi, (...)

03 - 04 - 2019
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