Okaz / Saudi Gazette
DAMMAM — Saudi Arabia has imported 4.1 million heads of sheep during the period January-July 2019 through the Jeddah Islamic Seaport with an increase of 21 percent over the same period last year, according to the Saudi Ports (...)
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DAMMAM — The Ministry of Labor and Social Development has made it mandatory on recruitment offices and companies to receive the housemaids who are arriving in the Kingdom for the first time warning them that failure to do so will (...)
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DAMMAM — The Ministry of Labor and Social Development will lift the ban on the recruitment of Ethiopian housemaids on Sunday following successful negotiations between Riyadh and Addis Ababa on the modalities which continued for (...)
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DAMMAM — The Criminal Court in Dammam has sentenced a young Saudi man in his 20s to one month in prison, 50 whip lashes to be applied at once and asked him to pay SR126,000 in compensation for breaking the teeth of a nine-year-old (...)
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DAMMAM — Minister of Labor and Social Development, Ahmed Al-Rajhi, is scheduled to meet with the representatives of the local recruitment offices to discuss the implications of the new Unified Recruitment Contract (URC) which the (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
DAMMAM — The National Recruitment Committee in the Saudi Council of Chambers is determined to take steps against the adamance of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development to go ahead with its decision to implement a new unified (...)
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DAMMAM — The unified recruitment contract for household workers has finally been uploaded onto the Ministry of Labor and Social Development's Musaned e-gate after a delay of 24 hours.
The format of the contract, which should have (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
DAMMAM — The Musanid e-portal of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development is yet to have the provision of Unified Contract (UC) for recruitment of housemaids. The contract was to be implemented from Monday.
Industry sources (...)
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DAMMAM — Saudi recruitment offices have decided not to accept any new applications to recruit housemaids from Monday.
The decision came in protest against an article in the unified contract, which requires them to pay a fine equal (...)
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DAMMAM — Around 700 Saudi recruitment offices have objected to some provisions in the uniform contract for the recruitment of domestic workers, approved by Minister of Labor and Social Development Ahmed Al-Rajhi.
In a letter (...)
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DAMMAM — The Philippines government has recently issued a decision enabling the Saudi recruitment offices to contract four manpower exporting offices in the country instead of two previously, industry sources have revealed.
They (...)
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QATIF – Many salesmen have abandoned the central fish market in Qatif, one of the largest in the Middle East, as a result of its poor maintenance. At least 69 stalls in the market remain unoccupied.
"At present there are only 40 (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
DAMMAM — Sri Lankan recruitment offices have turned their back on agreement with their Saudi counterparts by raising housemaid recruitment fees by about 92 percent from US$1,560 to US$3,000, according to chairman of the (...)
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DAMMAM — As many as 1,089,342 housemaid recruitment visas were issued through the Musaned electronic portal in 2016, the Ministry of Labor and Social Development has announced.
It said that 61,411 workers, including 40,750 who (...)
Okaz/Saudi Gazette
DAMMAM — A 50 percent increase in the price of soft drinks is expected with the introduction of selective tax across six Gulf countries.
In February, the Saudi Cabinet approved the selective tax agreement which was given the (...)
QATIF – Traders at Safwa vegetable market, 10 km north of Qatif city, have urged the municipality to redesign the market's access road to allow supply trucks to bring in produce at all times without obstacle.
The traders approached Safwa Municipal (...)
DAMMAM — Police clearance certificates, made compulsory by the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka for Bangladeshi men and women before recruitment to work in the Kingdom, has delayed the arrival of housemaids, according to national recruitment offices in the (...)
DAMMAM – While chicken stalls in the Kingdom make special offers to consumers to beat the recession caused by the summer vacation and many people traveling abroad, sheep prices have gone up with rates ranging from SR350 to SR1,200 per head depending (...)
MAKKAH — Zamzam water will be provided to Haj pilgrims in their accommodations through out their stay in Makkah, according to Minister of Haj and Umrah Muhammad Saleh Bentan.
"Provision of the blessed water to the guests of Allah is a scared duty. (...)
Qahtani
ABHA — Imam of the grand mosque in Khamis Mushayat, Ahmed Al-Hawashi, has claimed that Archangel Gabriel and a group of other angels attended Taraweeh (special Ramadan night prayers) with him.
In the supplications at the end of the prayer, (...)
QATIF — The people of Qatif have welcomed the campaign titled "Ehna Al-Ahl" (We Are One Family) organized by social development committees in the Eastern Province to strengthen national unity.
A number of government departments are participating in (...)
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DAMMAM — The National Committee for Land Transport at the Council of Saudi Chambers has called upon the Labor and Social Development Ministry to reduce the Saudization rate from 20 to 5 percent in order to rescue the sector from (...)
Al-Jazirah
It seems the officials of the two holy mosques are still campaigning for the establishment of Haramain University. I thought they would drop the plan after many academics had expressed their reservation and opposition on the proposed (...)
Isa said that according to statistics in 2015, the number of students who are supervised by the cultural mission reached (125,513 male and female students on scholarships) of them: 75,205 male and female students on scholarships (57,303 male (...)
Qasim reviewed the Council's achievements to organize and promote the principle of fair competition and provide a stimulating investment environment for all sectors, pointing out that the Council continued its efforts to strengthen its role, through (...)