A minor earthquake, measuring three on the Richter Scale, hit Hart Village, 160 km north of Al-Ahsa, on Wednesday, said Col. Mansour Muhammad Al-Dowsari, spokesman of the Civil Defense in the Eastern Province.
Citizens in Hart said they felt the (...)
Companies which wish to reach their Saudization quotas must not only hire Saudi workers but must also pay them well, Minister of Labor Adel Fakieh said during a visit to Al-Ahsa.
He also revealed plans for a joint ministries of labor and finance (...)
Some regions of Saudi Arabia will suffer from a shortage of water over the next few years, the Minister of Agriculture warned at a forum Wednesday.
“The Kingdom might face a problem in meeting its future water needs. Water used for municipal, (...)
Several pregnant women working in private companies have demanded reduction of working hours during their pregnancy. They argue it is a difficult period for women and private companies must be forced to give them holidays when required.
Maha Ahmad, (...)
The Sustainable Development Project for Irrigated Agriculture in Al-Ahsa has organized a program for modern irrigation systems and is using recycled wastewater at the experimental farm at Julaijilah.
The program, established as part of the (...)
Riyadh highway Friday killed one foreign resident and left four other people injured.
According to a police source, the crash was caused by a truck driver falling asleep at the wheel, leading to his vehicle and its cargo of food products straying (...)
A resident of Asian nationality hanged himself from a ceiling fan at his home in Al-Ahsa on Thursday, police have said. According to a police spokesman, authorities were alerted by a work colleague of the deceased. “It would appear that the man had (...)
A pregnant woman was denied admission to an emergency room for more than 90 minutes because she didn't have a copy of her family registry card, despite the fact that the hospital's copier was broken.
The woman, who was 23 weeks pregnant, was (...)
Al-Ahsa Prison has released 60 inmates of various nationalities over the past few days as part of the King's Ramadan pardon. The prisoners were found eligible for a Ramadan release after their files were studied by the authorities.
Major Anwar (...)
Police in the Eastern Province have stepped up efforts against begging in Dammam, Al-Khobar and Dhahran. Over 430 beggars have been arrested in the last two months, said Ziyad Abdul Wahhab Al-Ruqaiti, spokesman for the Eastern Province police, (...)
Three firefighters received minor injuries as they sought to contain a blaze at a paper production factory in Al-Ahsa on Thursday. A Civil Defense spokesman said that the fire gutted a factory area of 5,000 square meters and three neighboring (...)
Restaurants and cafeterias in the region have been banned from selling shawarma – a chicken or meat kebab-type takeaway sandwich – after registering numerous cases of poor hygienic conditions and food poisoning.
“This is to protect the health of (...)
In separate incidents, a Saudi and an Asian expatriate committed suicide here on Friday. The Asian worker stabbed himself to death using a sharp knife while the Saudi man, in his 50s, hanged himself at his home in Al-Jafar town. The body of the (...)
Amal, a junior female student in the science department at the College of Education in Al-Ahsa, chose to be nicknamed Abu Khalid (the father of Khalid). She chose to wear men's clothes and imitate men in the way she walked.
When someone asked her (...)
A 60-year-old Asian man hanged himself at a construction site where he was working in Al-Raqeeqa in Al-Ahsa on Monday. Police were called to the scene where officers found the body hanging by a rope tied around a metal girding. An investigation has (...)
Police in Al-Mubarraz and Al-Jafar have arrested an undisclosed number of persons on charges of imitating police officers and robbing and assaulting members of the public. According to a police report, the arrests were made on Saturday following (...)
A housemaid of Asian nationality is in serious condition in Al-Hofouf Hospital after she fractured her skull while descending from the second floor of her employer's home in an apparent attempt to flee. The woman reportedly made a rope from sheets (...)
A morgue employee at the Maternity General Hospital in Al-Ahsa is under investigation for allegedly going home with the morgue's keys, forcing families to wait for hours to get the bodies of their loved ones for burial.
The father of Fatima Sari (...)
The new Al-Ahsa offices of the Ministry of Civil Services, opened only one year ago at a cost of SR15 million, would appear to already be falling to bits.
Both staff and public entering the building were as of Wednesday morning directed to a side (...)
A Saudi man has told investigators in Al-Ahsa that he was responsible for the death of his infant child after he accidentally “dropped him on the floor”. Police said they were called to a hospital by staff who informed them a baby boy had been (...)
In one of the strangest cases here, police in Al-Mebrz have charged a teacher for renting cars to his students for street racing and roaming the governorate's streets.
One of the students who caused a traffic accident confessed to the police during (...)
The people of Al-Ahsa laid to rest Wednesday the four-month-old baby boy Mshari Ahmad Al-Bawshal, who was killed by a housemaid with poison in his feeding bottle.
The baby was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Al-Ahsa Hospital for four months but (...)
Police in Al-Ahsa have arrested one man over the killing of a woman in her eighties and her housemaid of Asian nationality in the town of Al-Tarf last Saturday. The bodies of the two women were found by a relative of the elderly lady who entered the (...)
A fight between a Pakistani couple led to a man being hospitalized with serious stab wounds and his wife taken into custody by police on Sunday.
A spokesman for Eastern Province Police said that the injured man's wife initially claimed that an (...)
Health Affairs in Al-Ahsa opened an inquiry Thursday into a female doctor who allegedly left a cloth inside a woman giving birth at a maternity hospital in the Eastern Province. The doctor, a resident of Kingdom, was reported by the husband of the (...)