Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — Taif is one of the Kingdom's most favorite tourist destinations to where thousands of vacationers flock during the summer season. Moderate temperature, rain and pleasant weather offer a real breathing space for the (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — The Saudi Tourism Authority (STA) is preparing the longest recreational tourist path in the country with a length of 1,835 km as part of its ambitious drive to promote domestic tourism.
The path would connect the Kingdom's (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — Five female teachers were seriously injured in a car accident recently, a report issued by the Taif traffic police said.
Col. Ali Al-Shibani, director of Taif traffic police, said the accident happened on Wednesday while (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — Residents of this summer resort city are upset as a public park project, announced two years ago, still gathers dust in the bureaucratic files. Exasperated residents of this beautiful and historic city want to know exactly (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — Authorities have given their consent for the Taif season to continue for the next 10 years following the success of the recently concluded first season, Ahmed Al-Khateeb, chairman of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — About 120 Saudi female engineers in Taif have not been gainfully employed since they graduated from the university more than five years ago, according to a data released by the Committee of Engineers in this summer resort (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — Though the Makkah Governorate had earlier announced that the new airport in Taif would be opened in 2020, the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) on Tuesday said they were still in the stage of offering bids for the (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — The Taif Season will open on Aug. 1 within the Saudi Seasons tourism initiative with at least seven other countries participating.
The event will consist of three major sections, which are the annual Souq Okaz festival, a (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — The contractor executing the basic infrastructure and coordination of the general location of Souk Okaz is all set to complete his work during the coming few days and hand over the project to the Saudi Commission for (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — The Ministry of Labor and Social Development has stopped the recruitment of housemaids from Ethiopia after negotiations between the two countries reached a deadlock.
Saudi authorities lately issued thousands of work visas (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — About 50 women students of the College of Computer Science and IT at Taif University have refused to retake an examination the question paper of which the university says had been leaked out.
The students said they were (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — A limited number of male students of Taif University attended the first singing rehearsals on Monday after the university announced music courses as part of its extra-curricular programs.
Female students were conspicuously (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF — The residents of Al-Khurma have refuted the statements by the Department of Health Affairs in Taif denying the presence of meningitis cases in the town and said the fatal disease was spreading in the governorate.
A number (...)
Shomouk's father was in Makkah working as a taxi driver when his brother rang to tell him that his daughter died at the hospital. When he got to the hospital, the police told him that his daughter had been murdered by his wife. Despite the heinous (...)
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Okaz/Saudi Gazette
TAIF – A mother stabbed her seven-year-old daughter to death here Tuesday with a screwdriver, for refusing to do her daily exercises to help heal a fractured arm.
Shomoukh, the little girl, was rushed to the hospital (...)