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Articles of the author Muhammad Al Abdullah
Productive families make available cloth masks at reasonable price
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM – Several productive families affiliated with the Saihat Social Services Society have begun to produce cloth face masks to sell at nominal rates to meet the huge demand in the local market. This is at a time when the prices (...)

01 - 06 - 2020
Ticketing for wrong-way driving to start within 20 days — Traffic chief Plans to use drones during accidents; no women detained for traffic violations
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Maj. Gen. Muhammad Al-Bassami, director general of the Traffic Directorate, announced that ticketing for traffic violations such as driving the wrong-way and entering the roads through the wrong track would begin within (...)

11 - 02 - 2020
Women to be hired in energy sector soon
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Young Saudi women are soon going to be hired in the Kingdom's vital energy sector, according to a senior official. Abdul Rahman Abdul Karim, advisor to the Ministry of Energy for corporate affairs and chairman of the (...)

28 - 11 - 2019
MLSD set to classify profession in iqamas and visas at no cost
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Ministry of Labor and Social Development (MLSD) is working on classifying of professions via preparing precise details on the term "worker (laborer)", the Director of the Professional Examinations Program at the (...)

16 - 11 - 2019
Procedures for compensating contracting firms in pipeline
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The Saudi Council of Engineers (SCE) will be holding discussions with Ministry of Finance officials to work out a fair mechanism for the payment of compensation to construction companies during the coming period, (...)

09 - 09 - 2019
Saudi Arabia exports of dates rise 27% in six months Expert urges new marketing policy to boost staple fruit's sale
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Saudi dates exports have registered a 27 percent rise during the first half of 2019, as the total exports during the period have already reached SR574 million, compared to the total dates exports in 2018, during which the (...)

07 - 09 - 2019
New recruitment guidelines for domestic workers cause unease
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — The recent approval of a program for online documentation of labor contracts by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development has caused unease among a number of recruitment companies, especially with regard to punitive (...)

25 - 05 - 2019
SAMA: Stopping selling on installments aimed at combating payment defaulters, money laundering
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM – The agreement between the Ministry of Commerce and Investment and the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) is meant to stop the licensing of companies selling commodities on installment, Zeid Al-Yaeesh, Chairman of the (...)

20 - 05 - 2019
SR2,000 salary a precondition for return of house helps: Indonesian envoy
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Negotiations between labor ministries of Saudi Arabia and Indonesia have started on expediting the return of Indonesian domestic workers to the Kingdom, according to Indonesian Ambassador to the Kingdom Agus (...)

13 - 05 - 2019
An industrial hub turns into garbage dump Car repair shops, construction contractors make life miserable on Tarout Island
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM -- Owners of car repair shops have turned the industrial area near the Turkish neighborhood on Tarout Island into a dumping site, sparking public anger. According to many residents of the area, some construction companies, (...)

17 - 04 - 2019
Recruitment of Ethiopian maids to begin by month-end
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Saudi Arabia will start hiring domestic workers from Ethiopia this month, according to recruitment office sources. There are over 800 Ethiopian contracting offices that will handle the process of sending domestic labor. (...)

07 - 04 - 2019
Rest house owners in EP raise rents to SR3,500 a day
Okaz/Saudi Gazette DAMMAM — Increased demand has led rest house owners in the Eastern Province to raise rents by 150 to 200 percent during the first three days of the Eid Al-Fitr. The prices ranged from SR2,500 to SR3,500 a day. The rent during (...)

29 - 06 - 2017
Rains destroy 70 percent of crops in Dammam
DAMMAM — The torrential rains that lashed the Eastern Province for the past three days have destroyed 70-80 percent of the agricultural crops, according to a source of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture. Several farms here were (...)

20 - 02 - 2017
Gold traders to expect a low sale during Eid season due to global conflicts
DAMMAM — Investors in the gold sector expect gold sales during the current Eid Al-Fitr season to be on the low side, or to a great extent similar to the past season. They said that indicators do not show that there is an unusual trend to revive the (...)

09 - 07 - 2016
Meet Yousif Al-Maibooq, the Saudi lion tamer
Okaz/Saudi Gazette Rarely would one meet a young Saudi man who loves to tame wild animals but Yousif Al-Maibooq, 36, from this Eastern Province city is different. Keeping ferocious animals as pets is his passion. Al-Maibooq believes that the most (...)

05 - 03 - 2016
SAMA opens investigation into banks for violations
Dani Okaz/Saudi Gazette TAIF/JEDDAH – The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) is investigating local banks for tampering with the terms of Saudis' personal loan contracts. Banks which debited accounts separate from those agreed on when the (...)

22 - 04 - 2012
Stock traders, investors laud King's directives
Abdullah Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Stock market traders and investors have welcomed the directives of King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, to the chairman of the Capital Market Authority (CMA), urging a crackdown on illegal (...)

11 - 04 - 2012
Reduced fodder cost to have an impact on poultry price
Fodder companies have cut the price of fodder by SR50 a ton. This is the fourth reduction since King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, issued a decision seven months ago to subsidize fodder by 50 percent. The new price came into effect (...)

02 - 02 - 2012
Nitaqat forces construction firms to shelve huge projects
The complicated Nitaqat system aimed at reducing reliance on expatriate workers and ensuring jobs for Saudis has forced several contracting firms to turn down huge public and private sector projects in the Eastern Province. The affected companies (...)

26 - 01 - 2012
Frost destroyed our crops, say EP farmers
Frost has severely damaged, and in some places completely destroyed, crops here during the recent cold fronts over the area, say Eastern Province farmers. Damage was estimated to be between 70 and 100 percent in the region. Farmers said that the (...)

26 - 01 - 2012
Buy 100chickens,get 10 free
Local poultry companies here are claiming that they cannot sell their chickens because some companies have been dumping cheaper imported frozen chickens on the domestic market. With demand dropping, some local companies are trying new ways to sell (...)

21 - 01 - 2012
‘Real estate prices to drop by 30%
Realtors in the Eastern Province expect a 30 percent drop in real estate prices during 2012, which they argue is the market correcting itself after price increases of between 30 and 45 percent during 2011. Abdullah Shihab, a realtor, said real (...)

15 - 01 - 2012
‘State budget committed to development'
The government's increased spending in its 2012 budget, on all levels of education and training of workers, shows its commitment to developing the country's human resources, say economic experts and analysts. This has been the strategic goal of all (...)

14 - 12 - 2011
Citizens urged to help fight corruption
Sharif, Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission, has urged citizens to help combat corruption. He also touched on the importance of increasing public awareness about the methods of corruption and its dangerous consequences and impact on (...)

09 - 12 - 2011
Indonesian maid ban may end in early '12
The Saudi government's ban on Indonesian domestic workers may be lifted in January after the Indonesian authorities agreed in principle to drop their demands for sponsors to provide their fingerprints and plans of their houses, according to (...)

26 - 10 - 2011
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