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Articles of the author Okaz DHULUM
Budget today
The state's budget for 1433H – 1434H (2012) is to be announced during the Council of Ministers' session Monday. Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf will announce its details in a televised speech later in the day. Economics experts are already (...)

26 - 12 - 2011
Vaccination campaign against measles begins
The Ministry of Health launched the second stage of the national vaccination campaign against measles, German measles and mumps by deploying its field teams Saturday. The second stage campaign will target all male and female students of all the (...)

27 - 11 - 2011
NSHR seeks extradition of Saudis in US prisons
The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has asked a visiting American delegation about the possibility of extraditing Saudi prisoners from the United States, so that they can spend the remainder of their jail terms in Saudi prisons. This (...)

19 - 10 - 2011
Govt closes its books for fiscal year on Dec. 30
The government will officially close its books for the 2011 fiscal year on Dec. 30 (Safar 5, 1433H). The new fiscal year will start on Saturday Dec. 31, 2011 (Safar 6, 1433H). Sources told Okaz/Saudi Gazette that the Ministry of Finance will stop (...)

16 - 10 - 2011
Health-risk allowances approved for MoH staff
The Ministry of Health has approved the disbursement of 100-day heath-risk allowances for its personnel this month (Shawwal/September); the allowance was raised from SR240 to SR750. The directorates of Health Affairs in Taif, Jazan and other (...)

20 - 09 - 2011
Creditability issues relate to reports on Kingdom's airports
The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has criticized reports by other rights organizations that focus only on the negative aspects of the Kingdom without shedding light on the country's positive attributes. The country's leading rights body (...)

16 - 09 - 2011
12 media firms licensed to organize poll campaigns
The General Committee for Municipal Elections has licensed 12 media establishments so far to organize and run the election campaigns, which are due to start Sunday and will continue for a period of 11 days. Out of the 12 licensed establishments, (...)

16 - 09 - 2011
Ministry of Health expands employment, Civil Services OK's
The Ministry of Health is continuously coordinating with the Ministry of Civil Service to appoint Saudi men and women to 4,000 vacant technical positions, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeah, Minister of Health, said Tuesday. “Each candidate nominated by the (...)

15 - 09 - 2011
1.2m voters to select from 5,609 candidates
About 1.2 million voters throughout the Kingdom will choose from among 5,609 candidates who are getting ready to launch their campaigns for seats on municipal councils. Eleven stages of the municipal elections have been completed and the Elections (...)

05 - 09 - 2011
11 killed in highway accidents
Eleven people died in separate car accidents Friday. A child survived with serious injuries from an accident that killed six members of his family on the Taif-Riyadh Road – 6 km away from Dhulum town, about 230 km northeast of Taif – when the family (...)

09 - 08 - 2011
Now birth certificates issued are permanent
The Civil Status Department started Monday issuing permanent birth certificates for new born babies in accordance with its new executive regulation. Earlier the department would only issue temporary birth certificates; Muhammad Al-Himyani, Director (...)

02 - 08 - 2011
NSHR received 130 complaints against courts last year
The seventh annual report of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has revealed that it last year received 130 complaints about the courts, four of which were against the Bureau of Grievances. There were 67 complaints against court verdicts, (...)

27 - 07 - 2011
NSHR: Most cases against Ministry of Education
The annual report of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) shows it received the most complaints about the Ministry of Education with 205 forms of correspondence, followed by municipalities with 146, some regional governorates with 101, the (...)

21 - 07 - 2011
2 women drivers from Oman stopped on Taif highway
Two female drivers were stopped Saturday morning on the Taif-Riyadh road as they and their families headed for the Western Region, officials said. Road patrols stopped the two cars with Omani plate numbers after they received a tip and spotted the (...)

17 - 07 - 2011
Saudis raise concerns over rising medical errors, fleeing doctors
The increasing number of medical errors has become a source of great worry to some families, especially when their members are in need of surgery. A report released last year by the Ministry of Health showed that 129 people died in 2010 because of (...)

16 - 07 - 2011
NSHR supports call for reforms in Arab countries
The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has welcomed this week's Council of Ministers' statement calling on Arab governments to initiate serious reforms to guarantee human rights and dignity. “This call is compatible with the King Abdullah (...)

13 - 07 - 2011
SFDA warning on bottled water
The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) has warned consumers not to use bottled water distributed under the brand “Donya” by Wadi Al-Henyia Healthy Water Factory in Al-Kharaj because of the presence of bromine beyond the permitted levels. SFDA said (...)

08 - 07 - 2011
Two students gunned down
year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were shot dead near a building in Al-Khurma belonging to the University of Taif Monday. Both the dead were students of the university, and the female victim was reportedly a sister of the 28-year-old gunman's (...)

01 - 06 - 2011
‘Municipal candidates seen chasing the voters'
ARDYIA/DAMMAM/JEDDAH: Municipal Council candidates have been seen chasing after voters at polling centers in east Taif areas of Dhulum, Al-Moyia and Umm Al-Doum. Some of the candidates were even asking to see the registration forms of voters and (...)

27 - 04 - 2011
King stays loved for his sense of justice: NSHR
Qahtani, Chairman of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), has said that the return of King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, to the Kingdom has given the people “great hope that he will continue the building process he started at (...)

25 - 02 - 2011
Court hears confession of sheep pen murderer
A court in Taif heard the statements on Sunday of a man who has confessed to the murder of a fellow African national at a cattle enclosure in Al-Muweih 10 days ago. The suspect told the court that the incident, in which he stabbed his co-worker in (...)

28 - 09 - 2010
Wrong-way driver injured in arrest
Highway Police forcibly detained a 20-year-old man who threatened an officer with a knife when stopped for driving the wrong way along the Taif to Riyadh road on Saturday. Police said that the vehicle, which bore no registration plates, was pursued (...)

27 - 09 - 2010
Suspect confesses to sheep pen murder
An African male held over the murder of a co-worker at a cattle enclosure in Al-Muweih last Saturday has confessed to the killing, Taif Police have said. Investigators say that the murder, the result of two stab wounds to the chest, arose after an (...)

25 - 09 - 2010
Murder suspect tracked by phone
Houmiyat Police are questioning a man suspected of involvement in the murder of an African male and the burial of his body near a sheep pen in a remote area of Al-Muweih last Saturday. The suspect, who was employed at the cattle enclosure, was (...)

24 - 09 - 2010
Three girls injured in roller coaster accident
Three girls aged between nine and 12 were injured at King Fahd Park in Taif on Friday night when a roller coaster went off its track. Ambulance and rescue teams rushed to the scene and took the girls to hospital. The Civil Defense stopped all games (...)

19 - 09 - 2010
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