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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)