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Articles of the author Badea Abu Al Naja
5 voluntary groups of girls serving pilgrims
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH – The department for safety and social and cultural services at Makkah Municipality has formed five voluntary teams of girls in cooperation with King Khalid Charitable Foundation and Arwiqa for Voluntary Work to provide guidance (...)

22 - 06 - 2017
Panel discusses criteria for medical research award
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — A meeting of the executive board of King Abdullah Award for Medical Research concluded in the presence of Dr. Bandar Al-Knawy, executive director of health affairs in the Saudi Arabian National Guard. At the meeting held at (...)

19 - 06 - 2017
Makkah gets ready for influx of Eid visitors
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Makkah Municipality has formed a number of technical teams to supervise and maintain public facilities during the upcoming festival season, which is expected to witness a high influx of visitors to the holy city. Khalid Bin (...)

19 - 06 - 2017
Court looks into 83 phony real estate deals
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — A special panel in Riyadh General Court has completed processing cases related to partnership transactions in 83 faltering real estate projects. The Real Estate Shareholding Committee was constituted last year at the behest of (...)

18 - 06 - 2017
Street vendors booted out of Makkah districts
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — The General Administration of Environmental Health in cooperation with the Municipality of Al-Shuwaikh in Makkah launched a large-scale field inspection campaign on street vendors in Al-Kaakiya market and on the sidewalks and (...)

15 - 06 - 2017
7,000 pastry items confiscated in Makkah; 8 workers held
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Al-Omrah District Municipal Office's inspectors destroyed 1,395 expired and spurious pastry and confectionery products and confiscated more than 7,000 such items. Eight expatriate works were arrested for illegally running a (...)

15 - 06 - 2017
2,200 surveillance cameras for crowd control at Haram
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — The Command and Control Center at the Public Security has installed as many as 2,200 surveillance cameras around the Grand Mosque and the Haram Central Area to monitor the movement of pilgrims and worshippers during the holy (...)

13 - 06 - 2017
Makkah Municipality intensifies road maintenance campaign
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — The General Administration of Roads in the Municipality of Makkah has carried out a major campaign to repair roads and streets leading to the Grand Mosque, especially in view of the large number of visitors and pilgrims during (...)

12 - 06 - 2017
House of Allah is open for all
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Umrah pilgrims and visitors to the Grand Mosque in Makkah refuted rumors being circulated by some malicious media to belittle the Kingdom's efforts in the service of pilgrims. They denied allegations that some Umrah pilgrims (...)

12 - 06 - 2017
Large amounts of unhygienic food seized in apartment raid
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Municipal inspectors in Makkah raided an apartment that was turned into a makeshift kitchen where meals were prepared in unhygienic conditions. Several expatriate workers preparing to distribute the prepared food to hotels (...)

08 - 06 - 2017
Inspection campaign
The Makkah Municipality inspected over 35,000 restaurants and stores and 200 stalls set up for the month of Ramadan. It aims to ensure safety and health of all consumers. The inspections will continue throughout the month to ensures that all food (...)

06 - 06 - 2017
Pilgrims' safety our priority: Makkah Civil Defense
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — The Civil Defense is conducting frequent inspections in the holy city to ensure that safety and security regulations are followed in commercial, services and residential establishments used by pilgrims. Makkah Civil Defense (...)

05 - 06 - 2017
Car parks readied outside Makkah for pilgrims
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — All public facilities and municipal services are ready to receive hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and worshippers who will converge on the holy city to perform Umrah and offer special prayers during Ramadan, said Makkah (...)

04 - 06 - 2017
Tarahum distributes 30,000 iftar packets daily in Holy Haram
Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH — Tarahum Makkah began implementing its project to distribute 30,000 iftar meals a day in the Grand Mosque. Tarahum Makkah executive director Yahya Al-Kinani said they began their charity projects alongside their (...)

30 - 05 - 2017
2,074 prisoners released
Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH — The General Directorate of Prisons released a number of inmates as part of the forgiveness program as ordered by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman. General Directorate of Prisons spokesman Col. Ayoub Bin (...)

30 - 05 - 2017
37 stores shut down for hygiene violations
Okaz/Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Municipal inspectors shut down 37 stores in Makkah for multiple violations. Mansour Balubaid, environmental health director at Makkah Municipality, said the municipality organized an inspection campaign to ensure that all (...)

25 - 05 - 2017
Summary courts rehashed to cut down litigation time
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Justice Minister Waleed Bin Muhammad Al-Samaani opened in Riyadh on Sunday a meeting of the judges of the summary courts all over the Kingdom with the aim of re-organizing the courts so as to speed up litigation. Samaani, who (...)

23 - 05 - 2017
Non-obligatory prayers not allowed in mataf till Ramadan
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — Worshipers will not be allowed to offer non-obligatory prayers in the mataf (circumambulation) area till the end of Ramadan, according to instructions issued by Emir of Makkah Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, who is the chairman of (...)

23 - 05 - 2017
Disability-smart
Saudi Gazette EMPLOYING disabled people is seen by most employers as difficult, too expensive and likely to result in low productivity. However, the management of a local mall in Makkah recently hired a group of physically challenged students as (...)

13 - 05 - 2017
Roof collapse injures four workers
A roof of a building under construction in the Crown Prince residential project in Makkah collapsed on Wednesday morning, injuring four workers. The cause of the collapse was not immediately known but Civil Defense spokesman Maj. Naif Al-Sharif said (...)

11 - 05 - 2017
Executive Courts force defaulters to cough up SR99b
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — The Executive Courts in various parts of the Kingdom have, in the first six months of the current Hijra year, received as many as 219,001 applications to implement court rules concerning financial disputes and have forced (...)

09 - 05 - 2017
Unlicensed houses razed in Makkah
The municipality demolished 15 illegally constructed houses in Makkah on Sunday. Al-Shawqiyah Municipality head Mamdouh Iraqi said the demolition was part of a municipality campaign against structures built without proper licenses and proper (...)

02 - 05 - 2017
Women can file lawsuits in courts of their choice
Saudi Gazette MAKKAH — The Ministry of Justice has given women litigants the right to choose the courts nearest to their homes when filing lawsuits related to family affairs. "The decision was aimed at making it easy for women to reach the courts (...)

13 - 04 - 2017
Experts to discuss contagious diseases among children
Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – The Saudi Society for Contagious Diseases in Children is scheduled to launch an international symposium in Riyadh on Wednesday. Dr. Hani Jokhdar, undersecretary for public health at the Ministry of Health, will inaugurate the (...)

10 - 04 - 2017
Rehabilitation through crafts
DHAHBAN — The Central Prison in Dhahban, north of Jeddah, is one of the largest correction institutions in the Kingdom where many terror suspects are held. [caption id="attachment_127605" align="alignright" width="300"] Lt. Col. Fayez (...)

20 - 03 - 2017
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