An increasing number of young Saudi women are studying law at university. I do not know the reason for this. Perhaps it is because their mothers lived their lives unaware of their rights. Maybe it is the case that these young women want to prove (...)
Marik, the Kingdom's ambassador to Bahrain, denied media reports that embassy officials there have been slow in responding to a case in which a Saudi man was reportedly attacked by Bahraini officers on their side of the King Fahd Causeway linking (...)
Qaffari, official spokesman of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a), said training and courses for Hai'a personnel are designed to develop skills and upgrade the standard of staff, especially those working in (...)
Sheikh, Chairman of the Municipal Council in Makkah, disagreed with Dr. Osama Al-Bar, Mayor of Makkah, who recently stated that Makkah is safe from floods.
Aal Al-Sheikh stressed that Makkah is not safe from flood hazards. He said that he received (...)
Raddadi, police spokesperson in Madina, said bodies of the two newborns who were found in a bag outside a mosque here have been handed over to King Fahd Hospital for autopsy. The decomposed bodies were determined to be for a boy and a girl aged (...)
Rasheed, Chief Executive Officer of Emaar, the company contracted to build the King Abdullah Economic City in Rabegh, has said that a new housing project will provide homes for 55,000 people of medium income.
The project will be put out for tender (...)
Customs Department officials at Al-Durra foiled an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of narcotic pills hidden inside the engine of a car.
Raheem Marzooq Al-Hafi, Director General of Al-Durra Customs, said the department's men became suspicious on (...)
A truck carrying 1027 cartons of frozen chicken fell off Al-Haddar mountain road in Ballasmar north of Abha city when its driver lost control of his vehicle and it veered off the road and hit the concrete barriers on the roadside.
A man and his (...)
King Abdullah Institute for Research and Consultation Studies at King Saud University in Riyadh has started conducting feasibility studies on the prospective construction of five private health colleges in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Abha and (...)
The first international conference on electronic and distance learning has been approved by King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques for March 18, 2009.
Minister of Higher Education, Khaled Bin Mohammad Al-Anqari, said the plan goes hand in (...)
The Ministry of Higher Education said 17,268 students have been granted scholarships through the King Abdullah Scholarship Program.
The scholarships cover bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees as well as medical fellowships.
The applicants form (...)
An agreement to build a wall on the Saudi-Iraqi border will be signed soon with a company, Interior Minister Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz disclosed here, Saturday night.
The Kingdom in 2006 announced plans to build the fence for security (...)
Obeikan, Adviser to the Minister of Justice and member of the Shoura Council, has said.
He said selling of visas violates the regulations as they are issued in the interest of the people.
The practice of exploiting workers by selling visas and (...)
Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz will patronize a conference dubbed “The Saudi Family and the Contemporary Changes” next Saturday at Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University.
The conference will discuss seven main points and will include workshops and a (...)
A man in Jeddah refused to take delivery of his newborn daughter's body on Friday after three weeks in the morgue, demanding an autopsy.
Yusuf Breik Al-Udhaini refused to collect his baby daughter's body, saying that the Ministry of Health had not (...)
The father of a mentally challenged 16-year-old boy has confined him to a makeshift steel cage to keep him in the family's house in the village of Al-Faho Bani Jaber.
Moharib Salim Al-Jabri has been confined to the cage for years. The father said (...)
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice rescued a boy from sexual assault by youths who assaulted his elder brother and documented their crime via Bluetooth. Then they demanded of the raped youth to fetch his younger (...)
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Riyadh has arrested a young man who threatened a married woman to force her to go out with him.
Al-Shifa District's Commission in southern Riyadh received a report from a man (...)