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Articles of the author Okaz DHULAM Saeed Al
Kidnapped Saudi diplomat freed in Yemen
Malki, the Saudi diplomat kidnapped by tribesmen in Yemen 11 days ago, was released unconditionally Tuesday after a tribal cordon around the area where he was being held left his abductors with few options but to free him peacefully. Ali Al-Hamdan, (...)

04 - 05 - 2011
4 licenses, 20 registrations issued under new online law
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 (...)

26 - 01 - 2011
SFDA upgrades its foodstuff labs
The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) has contracted a German company to upgrade its laboratories at border posts to prevent the entry of any contaminated or carcinogenic foodstuff unfit for human consumption, said SFDA Vice Executive President (...)

04 - 07 - 2010
Judges requested to heed terrorism financing edict
King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, has ordered the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) to work in accordance with the Board of Senior Ulema's recent edict criminalizing the financing of terrorism. In response to the order, a circular (...)

05 - 06 - 2010
Sudanese drowns in well
The body of a Sudanese resident was recovered by the Civil Defense on Tuesday morning from a well at a farm in the Al-Arfa' region of Dhulam. A spokesman said that initial investigations suggested the man died after an accidental fall. The death (...)

04 - 06 - 2010
Health Ministry moves to stop odus of medical staff
In the wake of an exodus of doctors and technical staff last year, the Ministry of Health has ordered its regional officials to meet with these professionals, resolve their grievances and try to retain their services. Official statistics show that (...)

31 - 05 - 2010
1 dead, dozens injured as bus ploughs into crash scene
Hospitals in Taif were put on high alert Thursday after a bus with over 50 passengers ploughed into six vehicles at the site of two-car crash being dealt with by police near the town of Al-Buhaita on the Taif to Makkah Road. A van also struck one of (...)

12 - 02 - 2010
Six dead from water truck collision
The number of deaths from a collision between a car and a water truck in the region of Al-Kharma rose to six Thursday evening after a nine-year-old boy died from his injuries in hospital. The accident, which took place earlier in the day, killed his (...)

18 - 07 - 2009
Mosque bullet hole theft mystery
Police investigating a robbery at a mosque in the town of Al-Kharma are trying to uncover the facts behind bullet holes found in the door to the building. Officials received reports of shots being fired at the site and when they reached the scene (...)

11 - 07 - 2009
Authorities alerted to magic men
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested an Arab expatriate Thursday for using the women's clothes shop where he worked as a center of black arts activity. The man was reported to the authorities after customers (...)

11 - 07 - 2009
Wedding bullet kills teenager
A shot accidentally fired inside a wedding hall killed a teenager attending the celebrations Wednesday. The stray shot was fired as attendees departed the premises and the victim was struck in the head. The Ministry of Interior has outlawed the use (...)

11 - 07 - 2009
Wanted truck driver located
Police in Dhulam located Thursday the driver of a truck that collided with a similar vehicle and fled the scene of the accident. The man told authorities that he fled the accident, which led to minor injuries to the other driver, out of fear as he (...)

03 - 07 - 2009
Examination pupil gets wake-up call
Through his eagerness to succeed - or having left his revision to the last minute - a final year secondary school pupil in the east of Taif nearly missed an end-of-year examination by falling asleep in his car following a night of prolonged (...)

26 - 06 - 2009
Ministry investigates mystery cattle illness
Agriculture authorities in the town of Dhulam are growing increasingly concerned at reports of cattle deaths seemingly due to the consumption of barley and berseem following the death of four sheep and two camels on Friday. Four other sheep are also (...)

06 - 06 - 2009
Underage driver kills 9-year-old
year-old Sudanese boy was killed on Thursday when he was hit by a pick-up vehicle driven by a child of a similar age, according to police in Al-Quthma in the north of Taif. The boy was reportedly crossing the road when he was hit by the underage (...)

06 - 06 - 2009
Mobile telephone signal leads to arrest of gunman
The security authorities in Afif arrested at dawn Thursday three people involved in the shooting of a man at the gate of Dhulam Police Station on Wednesday. The authorities in Taif were able to locate one of the gunmen by following the signals from (...)

28 - 02 - 2009
Six-month jail, 200 lashes for security man
Muwaih Court on Sunday sentenced a sacked security man to six months in prison and 200 lashes. He was accused in the case of a missing official AK-47 assault rifle (Kalashnikov) from the road security station in Turaif on Taif-Riyadh Road. The (...)

05 - 01 - 2009
NSHR calls for law against family violence
Shareef, Supervisor of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) in Makkah, has said cases of family violence in the region, especially in Taif, are increasing. Al-Shareef said the branch had received and is following up several cases of family (...)

29 - 12 - 2008
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