Okaz
AFTER the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, the first thing it did was to engage in an eight-year-war with neighboring Iraq, killing more than a million people, half of them innocent civilians.
During this war, Iranian warplanes (...)
Okaz
A SAUDI businessman commented on my article titled «The shopping malls speak Saudi» published by Okaz newspaper on Tuesday. He said the only way to compel the private sector to Saudize jobs is to raise the cost of recruiting or hiring (...)
Okaz
THE government has decided to announce the new pricing of electricity and fuel in June in accordance with the fiscal balance program. I suggest delaying the announcement until the end of the summer so that people's electricity bills do not (...)
Okaz
THE campaign that has been going on for many days against the establishment of cinema houses in our country is exactly similar or not different from a campaign that was launched in the past against the mobile phones with cameras.
With the (...)
THE Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution (BIP) has made an important clarification in response to a newspaper report about its refusal to incriminate people who store porn videos on their cell phones and computers, surf prohibited websites (...)
Okaz
INITIALLY they were targeting non-Muslim infidels and Muslim security officers before going after worshippers at mosques as well as fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters and other family members. Today they target fasting soccer fans at (...)
ONE of the main goals of the nation›s future vision is to lower the unemployment rate and create more job opportunities. The aim is also to generate jobs in the private sector. What people are afraid of now is that many citizens might lose their (...)
Okaz
It seems that the officials of the ministries and government departments are busy thinking of ways and means to impose additional fees on the services they offer to the citizens rather than thinking of how to improve these services and make (...)
MANY of us were glued to the TV screens last Monday to listen to five ministers presenting their ministries' programs in the National Transformation Plan (NTP) within Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.
This was the first time these many ministers directly (...)
Okaz
I have nothing to do with what people embrace of other religions or beliefs. To each their lord to judge them. And since I stopped judging others in their thoughts and actions, I have been living in great inner peace, but I do dwell on the (...)
THE issue of rising private schools fees is still being debated between school owners and the parents of students, especially in the absence of school ratings or standardized indicators that determine the actual educational value of a seat at the (...)
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry did not let me down in the case of the "elevator". During the era of Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, the Ministry of Commerce has become a symbol of consumer protection and a refuge for those seeking redress from dealers (...)