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Articles of the author Abdul Mohsen Al Harithy
250 of King's Umrah guests to arrive
Okaz / Saudi Gazette RIYADH — Some 250 leading Muslim personalities from eight countries will arrive in the Kingdom on Wednesday as special guests of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman to perform Umrah and visit Madinah. This will be the (...)

12 - 05 - 2016
Minister: Endowments in total disarray
Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — The Kingdom has about 120,000 endowments scattered all over its provinces but the sector is in complete disarray and needs a thorough reorganization, Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance Saleh (...)

16 - 02 - 2016
Ministry to name new scholarship winners today
RIYADH — The winners in new phase of the Scholarship Program of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques will be announced on Thursday, the Education Ministry has said. The ministry said the third stage of the program, under which the qualified Saudi (...)

10 - 12 - 2015
300 tons of rotten fish found in illegal warehouse in Jeddah
A Jeddah Governorate committee has discovered an illegal warehouse for drying fish in the mountains east of Braiman District. The warehouse, which was being run illegally by expatriates, was uncovered in a routine inspection of walled yards. The (...)

14 - 03 - 2012
Youth to petition King for women's right to drive
JEDDAH: Some Saudi youths have started a group on Facebook to petition King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, to allow women to drive. “We aim to accomplish this goal by sending a petition to the Saudi government to give them the right (...)

06 - 03 - 2011
Remote Taif schools face threat of closure
On the surface, a low student-teacher ratio looks advantageous, but it may instead jeopardize the very existence of a school. Teachers at the remote Suman High School for Girls in the south of Taif found themselves on Tuesday with no classes to (...)

14 - 10 - 2009
Residents angered at denial of access to historic well
Shumaisi district of Makkah have complained to the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) after a local farm owner incorporated a well of historical significance into the confines of his land and closed the road leading up to it. The (...)

20 - 05 - 2009
2,500 fined, jailed or deported
The Administrative Committee at the Expatriates' Administration in Makkah has handed out sentences for 2,500 violations of labor and residency regulations over the last month. The committee issued jail sentences and fines for Saudi nationals, and (...)

30 - 04 - 2009
Winners of Prince Naif Hadith contest to be honored today
Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, will on Wednesday honor the winners of the Prince Naif Hadith Memorization Competition. “The competition is open to pupils in public education and this is the final (...)

15 - 04 - 2009
Car-in-lake mystery
Coast Guard divers using metal detectors searched all day in vain for a car full of people that is believed to have plunged into Arbaeen lake here around dawn Friday. They found only a gearbox that Coast Guard spokesman Col. Saleh Al-Shihri said (...)

14 - 02 - 2009
Defunct observatory becomes wildlife den
The recently-closed astronomical observatory in Taif has become home to a variety of wild animals since staff vacated the premises, turning a landmark building and center of research into a den for furry fauna. The observatory building has been a (...)

17 - 11 - 2008
Orientation course for scholarship students
An orientation course has been planned here on Saturday for about 1,276 male and female students selected in King Abdullah Scholarship Program to pursue their higher education abroad. The objective of the two-week course is to familiarize the (...)

15 - 11 - 2008
Fingerprints foil escape of 500 wanted workers
The Fingerprinting Department at the Expatriates Followup Administration in Jeddah last month foiled the escape of 500 workers wanted on criminal charges. Capt. Hatim Al-Hazmi, currently heading investigations, said that the charges included (...)

11 - 11 - 2008
371 jailed for illegal accessing of holy sites
The Expatriates Followup Administrative Committee on Sunday jailed 341 Saudis and 30 expatriates for assisting illegal migrants and those not holding valid Haj permits. The committee handed out jail sentences and fines for Saudi nationals, and (...)

10 - 11 - 2008
Passengers get lost at Jeddah airport
Several passengers have voiced their dissatisfaction over the time being taken to complete the expansion project at King Abdul Aziz Airport here. As the aerial gateway to the Two Holy Mosques, the airport receives millions of pilgrims every year in (...)

29 - 10 - 2008
Growing fad for pets reflects empty lives
With the craze for pet animals increasing by the day, some are asking what motivates young men or women to spend time and money to care for these friendly beasts of leisure. It has become common to see young men or women carrying small dogs or cats (...)

29 - 10 - 2008
Civil Defense personnel receive training in Europe
Civil Defense personnel have been receiving different training courses in Europe, Sa'ad Al-Twaijri, chief of Civil Defense in the Kingdom, said here on Sunday. Training courses in fire and rescue in high-rise buildings with foreign experts started (...)

27 - 10 - 2008
Right to contest scholarship rejection
All eligible students aspiring to be sent on scholarships abroad and whose names did not appear in the final list will have the option of lodging a complaint with the Ministry of Higher Education within five days effective Saturday. Dr. Majed Abdul (...)

25 - 10 - 2008
20% dropout rate in technical colleges
Ghufeis, Governor of the General Organization for Technical Education and Vocational Training, said that 20 percent of all technical college students drop out of their courses. This year training year 45,000 male and female students were enrolled in (...)

21 - 10 - 2008
Al-Anqari to sign SR10b KSU projects
Anqari, Minister of Higher Education, on Saturday will sign several contracts for the execution of strategic projects at King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh. Dr. Ali Saeed Al-Ghamdi, Deputy director for Knowledge Exchange and Technology Transfer, (...)

18 - 10 - 2008
20 expats caught in deportation attempt
Police are investigating the motives behind the surrender by 20 foreigners to the deportation authorities here, Monday. The 20 people had given themselves up posing as overstaying Umrah pilgrims, police said without revealing their (...)

06 - 08 - 2008
Sitteen Street murderer brain dead
The man, who shot dead a 24-year-old girl before firing at himself in an apartment on Sitteen Street here Monday, has been declared brain dead. The 30-year-old Saudi was admitted in the ICU at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah by the police in a (...)

24 - 07 - 2008
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