Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF – The committee that was set up to find the causes behind the recent Taif deluge has reportedly implicated Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) for the catastrophe as it allegedly delayed implementation of a flood prevention (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF – The road that links the rural town of Kalakh, 70 km south of Taif, with Sudaira has witnessed several bloody accidents in the past. Residents living along the road have been calling for the establishment of a dual (...)
TAIF – People of Hawiya, located north of Taif, have accused Taif Municipality of not fulfilling its promise of shifting the disorganized sheep market from the township to another place in the last 20 years. They held the municipality responsible (...)
TAIF – About two months after the mayor of Taif burned midnight oil with Civil Defense officials to discuss the prospect of shifting the waste dump in the city to a remoted location, it turned out that the meeting was meant just to cool the anger of (...)
An Oscar-winning screenwriter has agreed to work on a biopic about the 13th-century poet Jalaluddin al-Rumi. David Franzoni, who wrote the script for the 2000 blockbuster Gladiator, and Stephen Joel Brown, a producer on the Rumi film, said they (...)
Al-Dhiyabi
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — Residents of Hawiya, a resort city north of Taif, have expressed fears that the sheep and fodder market in the area would create an environmental catastrophe.
The market in Hawiya existed there for the past half (...)
Knowledgeable resources inside the Communication and Information Technology Commission declared yesterday that they decided to impose a financial fine on any company that refuses to transfer the service of any client to another operator pointing out (...)
The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice staff on Sunday arrested an alleged sorcerer in his residence in Al-Bahr District. The 50-year-old South Asian national, was rounded up for claiming to treat people with herbs and verses (...)