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Articles of the author Muhammad Al Ghamdi Okaz
All Saudi women mustget ID cards within 7 yrs
National identity cards must be provided to all Saudi women within seven years, a ministerial committee has recommended. National identity cards will be the only identity documents to be accepted in cases of accidents, at road checkpoints and in (...)

08 - 06 - 2012
Ambulance mishap sends Al-Baha into darkness
A Red Crescent ambulance crashed into an electric pole near Bani Sar town Thursday plunging all nearby towns and villages into darkness and sending all three individuals on board, the driver, the paramedic and the patient, to the hospital. It was (...)

01 - 04 - 2012
Cold wave to continue, says PME
The freezing weather gripping large parts of the country will continue over the next few days, according to the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME). Hussain Al-Qahtani, PME spokesman, said the Kingdom's northern parts will be hit by the (...)

24 - 01 - 2012
Baha couple donates organs of dead son
year-old dead son have donated his organs for those who may need transplants. The boy died in a traffic accident here recently. The request for the young man's organs came from the Saudi Organ Transplant Center (SOTC). A medical team from the SOTC (...)

23 - 01 - 2012
Naif orders study on comments about Saher
Crown Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior, has set up a ministerial committee to study comments from the public on the Saher traffic system. This is part of a plan to improve the system. A team from the Ministry of (...)

22 - 01 - 2012
‘Hai'a will prevent vice without vice'
Officials of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a) will be tasked with promoting virtue and preventing vice without getting involved in wrongdoing themselves, said Sheikh Dr. Abdullatif Bin Abdulaziz Aal (...)

15 - 01 - 2012
Top Swedish award for Prince Faisal
Prince Faisal Bin Abdullah Bin Muhammad, Minister of Education and Chairman of Saudi Arabian Scouts Association (SASA), shakes hands with Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, Honorary President of World Scout Fund (WSF), after the latter decorated him with (...)

02 - 01 - 2012
Full-time jobs for 205,000 temporary govt workers
Job designations in several government sectors have been specified for 205,807 employees who are currently on a temporary payroll. The move means the male and female employees will now be eligible for a full-time job and promotion. A joint civil (...)

14 - 12 - 2011
EP Border Guard catch immigrants, fishermen
DAMMAM: The Border Guard in the Eastern Province has said that 43 persons of various nationalities were apprehended for illegally entering Saudi waters in the first six months of the year. The authority said it also recorded three deaths by (...)

07 - 06 - 2011
Saudi student forced home by armed robbers
A Saudi student in Jordan has been forced to cut short his studies after being robbed at knife and sword-point near a service station on the Amman to Al-Qariyat road and then threatened when he took the case to court. Abdullah Al-Ghamdi and two (...)

26 - 07 - 2010
Police write themselves tickets for traffic offenses
In what some observers might describe as a violation of customary practice, a policeman in an official vehicle was fined in Jeddah on Thursday for jumping a red light. The infraction was observed by Sa'ad Al-Ghamdi, Jeddah's chief of Police (...)

25 - 07 - 2010
Civil Defense: 50% of flood claimants compensated
Ghamdi, head of the Civil Defense in Bahra, has said that 50 percent of all registered claimants to compensation for damage suffered during last November's floods in Jeddah have been paid in full. According to Al-Ghamdi, 19,450 applications for (...)

16 - 06 - 2010
Jeddah serial rapist nabbed
A criminal investigation officer studies a fingerprint of the rapist (left) just a few hours before the suspect was arrested on Sunday. – Okaz photo JEDDAH – Police arrested on Sunday a 24-year-old Somali man on charges of multiple rape at (...)

14 - 06 - 2010
Teen threatens pupils with gun
Police arrested a 19-year-old secondary school pupil on Thursday after he threatened to open fire on fellow students with a machine gun. Regional police spokesman Saeed Al-Ghamdi said that officers reached the scene and managed to contain the (...)

21 - 05 - 2010
Al-Ghamdi's status unclear;rumors of dismissal abound
Confusion reigns over the status of Makkah Hai'a chief Sheikh Ahmad Al-Ghamdi with website rumors and telephone text message services insisting Tuesday that he had been removed from his post as President of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue (...)

16 - 12 - 2009
Hira market fire started deliberately
Investigators have said that last week's fire at the Hira Street shopping market in north Jeddah was started deliberately and theft related. Head investigator from Civil Defense Muhammad Al-Ghamdi said that the safe at the site had been broken into (...)

09 - 12 - 2009
JCCI election results today
The winners of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce (JCCI) elections are expected to be announced Tuesday evening, a source at the Chamber has said. The elections, which opened Sunday, have followed a new Ministry of Commerce and Industry format in which (...)

13 - 10 - 2009
New Jeddah passports offices working day and night
The Passports Department has extended working hours at its two new offices at Al-Sairafi and Tahliya shopping malls in the north of Jeddah to cope with demand from the public for visas. According to Abdul Aziz Saeed Al-Ghamdi of the Passports (...)

11 - 07 - 2009
Jeddah council warns of pedestrian bridge danger
Chairman of the Jeddah Municipal Council Tariq Fadaq has slammed the state of pedestrian bridges both in Jeddah and across the Kingdom following Monday's fire on a walkway over the Haramain Highway that crippled traffic for five hours and posed a (...)

08 - 07 - 2009
Interior Ministry hunts down PlayStation traders
Ghamdi, Director of Internal Information in the Makkah region, has confirmed that the Ministry of Information and Culture has been in pursuit of traders of an anti-Islamic Sony PlayStation game. Responding to published reports published describing (...)

24 - 02 - 2009
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