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Articles of the author Saud Al Jaloud Okaz HAIL
Four teachers injured in accident
A bus driver was killed and four teachers were injured in a car accident on Hail-Qassim highway early Monday. According to highway patrol officials, the driver was driving in high speed when he crashed into a pick-up truck causing the bus to (...)

06 - 06 - 2012
King intercedes for pardon of Saudi on death row in Hail
“We came today to deliver the letter of King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, in the hope that you let the spirit of forgiveness and generosity prevail and you forgive the killer of your son, may Allah the Almighty bestow his mercy upon (...)

21 - 05 - 2012
Don't buy medicines on Internet, warns SFDA
The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) has warned against purchasing medicines and health or herbal preparations through the Internet. The SFDA has called on the public not to be lured by misleading advertisements on some websites, which sell (...)

03 - 03 - 2012
Health professionals can't be barred from traveling abroad
The Ministry of Health has insisted that it was illegal for a health directorate to prevent a health professional from traveling abroad. It has reiterated that this is the responsibility of a special medical commission which investigates cases of (...)

12 - 01 - 2012
Regions for wheat farming under study
A ministerial committee has been formed to consider how to meet the Kingdom's wheat demands in light of the scarcity of water resources. The study comes amid serious concerns that there isn't enough underground water to keep pace with increased (...)

06 - 01 - 2012
Cracks in Hail village not due to quake
Aradiya Village, 240 kilometers south of Hail, has returned to normal after the Civil Defense and Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) reassured the villagers that cracks near their houses were not caused by an earthquake. Col. Abdul Raheem Al-Juhani, (...)

27 - 12 - 2011
Ministry to transfer 28,500 female teachers Kingdomwide
The Ministry of Education has established a mechanism to distribute, in eight main stages, 28,500 female teachers across the Kingdom's governorates and regions. Sources told Okaz/Saudi Gazette that the Female Teachers' Affairs Section of the (...)

02 - 12 - 2011
MoE stops incentives to 5 categories of employees
The Ministry of Education has directed all its departments to stop giving increments to five categories of employees: supervisors of extracurricular activities covering less than three classes, teachers who teach less than 10 classes a week, those (...)

18 - 11 - 2011
Prepare for floods, Emirs direct offcials
Emirs of various regions have ordered the country's mayoralties and Civil Defense directorates to prepare for heavy rains and floods. Officials have also been told to follow up on flood projects in certain valleys. The emirs warned that water (...)

17 - 11 - 2011
Emirs asked to monitor governors' office hours
Prince Naif, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior, has ordered all the region's emirs and the Control and Investigation Bureau (CIB) to monitor whether the country's governors are sticking to the official working hours and delivering (...)

20 - 10 - 2011
Abducted Saudi businessman tells of ordeal
A Saudi businessman who was rescued from armed kidnappers in Nigeria, has urged other local businessmen traveling to conflict zones and dangerous countries to coordinate their visits with Saudi embassies. Hamdan Bin Saleh Bin Twala Al-Shammari was (...)

13 - 10 - 2011
Abducted Saudi businessman rescued by forces in Nigeria
Hamdan Bin Saleh Al-Shammari, the prominent Saudi businessman who was kidnapped last week by a gang in Nigerian city of Lagos, has been rescued, an official at the Saudi Embassy announced Saturday. The kidnappers were demanding $150 million (SR563 (...)

09 - 10 - 2011
A mother cries for justice as son beaten up in correctional facility
A teenager, incarcerated in a juvenile detention facility here, has been beaten up and tortured, his mother has alleged. Family members of other inmates at the Social Observation House here have also alleged torture of their sons at the correctional (...)

18 - 09 - 2011
CIB to monitor ministries' efforts to cut unemployment
The Control and Investigation Board (CIB) will start checking the results of the measures taken by government bodies to implement Royal orders to find urgent solutions to the increasing unemployment problem, sources said. The results will be (...)

08 - 09 - 2011
World's tallest man in the Kingdom
The world's tallest man, Ghulam Shabbir Faqir, 29, from Pakistan, said he was proud of his height that enabled him to meet famous people and world leaders. Hailing from Punjab the 2.55-meter-tall, Ghulam says he is looking for a bride who is just (...)

23 - 08 - 2011
Our university degrees not fetching us jobs
Female university graduates in Hail with degrees from faculties of arts and science complain that they have not found job opportunities in the private and public sectors in their specializations. All their attempts to find a job have failed. They (...)

20 - 08 - 2011
Importers of low-quality ACs face action
Government authorities are taking action against people who have imported air-conditioners that do not produce sufficient cooling, the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) said. Having noticed that these units recently entered the Saudi market, it is (...)

08 - 08 - 2011
Conditions being readdressed to resume Indonesian recruitment
The Saudi-Indonesian Committee is working hard to address recruitment conditions and resume the flow of Indonesian workers to the Kingdom, Dudang Abdul Rahman, the Indonesian commercial attaché, said Thursday during a meeting with members of the (...)

29 - 07 - 2011
Minister: I'm accountable if housing plans not implemented
Dr. Shuwaish Bin Saud Al-Dhuwaihi, Minister of Housing, said he is ready to be held accountable if housing plans are not implemented, but that accountability depends on the availability of land. “The ministry is ready to implement all plans and (...)

29 - 07 - 2011
Businesswomen in Hail back Nitaqat
Tahani Al-Ki'eak, head of the Businesswomen's Committee of Hail Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said that businesswomen hope that the recently issued Nitaqat system achieves its desired goals. “There are problems related to private sector (...)

17 - 07 - 2011
Prison, lashes for assault on hospital director
The Hail District Court has sentenced two citizens, working for the security staff at King Khalid Hospital (KKH) in Hail, to prison and lashes for assaulting Dr. Fawaz Al-Rashid, the KKH director. One was sentenced to 10 months in prison and 250 (...)

07 - 07 - 2011
Dispute ends in youth's killing
year-old man fatally shot a motorist in Al-Wuhaibiah, west of Al-Sumaira town, causing his vehicle to veer off the road and hit a lamppost. A Hail police spokesman said the 28-year-old victim was found with multiple bullet wounds from an automatic (...)

13 - 02 - 2011
Hospital head to pursue attackers
Fawwaz Al-Rashid, the Director of King Khaled Hospital in Hail who was left with a broken arm after being attacked last Saturday by two security guards, has said he has no intention of dropping charges against his aggressors. “The case is still (...)

29 - 09 - 2010
Driver caught in the act
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a) detained on Monday a Bangladeshi national on suspicion of organizing acts of prostitution. A Hai'a spokesman said that the man was officially employed as a private driver (...)

29 - 09 - 2010
Hail women drowning by numbers
Women in Hail are being urged to avoid using their personal mobile telephones to call restaurants and taxis after a surge in complaints over nuisance calls believed to be the result of their numbers being revealed to men for prices ranging between (...)

25 - 09 - 2010
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