Negotiations are continuing here to secure the release of Abdullah Al-Khalidi, the Saudi diplomat, who was abducted recently in Aden.
It has also been confirmed that Al-Khalidi is in good health, according to Sheikh Sultan Al-Bakiri, Chairman of (...)
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FLORIDA: The Saudi Cultural Attaché in the US has begun the process of enrolling the more than 6,000 Saudis studying in America at their own expense on the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarships Abroad Program.
The move follows (...)
Bahkali, supervisor of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) in Jizan Region, has disclosed that there are more than 3,000 cases pending with the human rights watchdog. Attempts are on to find an early resolution of all the pending cases, he (...)
Hout of the Ministry of Culture and Information has said that four licenses have so far been issued for Internet news websites while 20 sites including forums and personal blogs have been registered free of charge under new online publishing (...)
Ghamdi, who is in charge of a committee for development and social affairs in Makkah Region, told Okaz/Saudi Gazette that officials in the Development Committee in Al-Kamil Governorate have been investigated for distributing leaflets during Eid (...)
Ghamdi, head of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a) in Makkah, was rumored to have been dismissed Tuesday following his controversial interview, published by Saudi Gazette last Friday, in which he spoke frankly (...)
Banyan, Chairman of the Saudi Board of the Scientific Society for Languages and Translation, has revealed that only 1,260 books were translated from the day of the inception of the Kingdom in 1930 to 2005.
Addressing a workshop in Riyadh earlier (...)