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Articles of the author Abdullah Al Qarni
Mild tremor recorded in Jazan's Shuqaiq
Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — A minor earthquake, measuring 3.19 degrees on the Richter scale, with 2.45 km depth, was recorded in Al-Shuqaiq governorate in the southwestern Jazan region. The Seismic monitoring stations of the National Network for (...)

23 - 11 - 2020
Woman with coronavirus gives birth to baby boy in Riyadh
Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — A woman infected with coronavirus gave birth to a baby boy in a Riyadh hospital in what is believed to be the first such case in the Riyadh region. The baby is in good health while the health condition of the mother is (...)

28 - 04 - 2020
Mechanism unveiled to obtain permit for livestock movement
Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture announced the setting up of an electronic mechanism for obtaining temporary movement permits for owners of farms, livestock and beekeepers. These permits are provided in (...)

12 - 04 - 2020
Ministry asks schools not to hamper entry of ambulance
Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — The Ministry of Education has asked all schools across the Kingdom not to impede entry of ambulance cars into their premises to transport emergency cases whenever needed for any reason. Deputy Minister Abdul Rahman (...)

20 - 10 - 2019
Five members of family die in Riyadh apartment fire
Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — A man, his wife and three children died when their apartment in Al-Faisaliyyah district of Riyadh caught fire on Saturday, the Civil Defense said. The apartment was on the second floor of a three-story building. The Civil (...)

07 - 07 - 2019
Woman mysteriously disappears after fire in Jeddah
[caption id="attachment_151787" align="alignleft" width="259"] Civil Defense personnel evacuating people from a building which caught fire in Jeddah's Al-Nuzha District.[/caption] Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — The police are investigating the (...)

14 - 06 - 2017
3 more die in rain-related accidents
RIYADH — At least three more people, all of them Saudis, have died in rain-related accidents in Makkah and Riyadh, the Civil Defense announced on Tuesday. With this the death toll from heavy rains and torrential floods in various parts of the (...)

01 - 12 - 2016
931 women get first aid training
RIYADH — Saudi Red Crescent's women's section has trained 931 women in first aid over the past five months. Riyadh Red Crescent spokesman Abdullah Al-Muraibidh said the women's section offered 56 training workshops during the past five months. "The (...)

18 - 08 - 2016
Volunteer work
SOME people love to volunteer and help other human beings in need. Nora, whose family name I am not going to mention here at her request, is one of those people. Together with her late husband, she came up with the creative idea to feed the poor in (...)

15 - 07 - 2016
Why do Saudis leave their country in search of better jobs?
THE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not a poor country. However, around 1 million Saudis have left the country in search of a better future. Every year, expatriate workers transfer around SR150 billion. Are Saudis leaving their country because expatriate (...)

08 - 04 - 2016
Woman councilor withdraws from Jeddah Municipal Council
and Zain Anbar Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Jeddah Municipal Council member Lama Al-Sulaiman withdrew from the council on Monday and was replaced by a male member. The Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Abdullatif Al-Asheikh appointed Hasan (...)

16 - 03 - 2016
Bury me in Madinah: Wish of Saudi prisoner executed in Iraq
Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH/DAMMAM — "Bury me in Madinah, take good care of my wife and pay my debts to a commercial bank and a debt of $800 to a prison mate." These were the last wishes of Abdullah Azzam Al-Qahtani, a Saudi prisoner, who was executed (...)

09 - 02 - 2016
Elderly man conned out of SR30,000
JIZAN: An elderly man was conned out of SR30,000 by a youth who stole his card at an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in Ahad Al-Masariha Governorate on Thursday. The young man had offered to help the illiterate man carry out a financial transaction (...)

05 - 02 - 2011
900 start getting flood allowances
About 900 persons forced out of their homes by the November floods in Jeddah have, from this week, started receiving accommodation and living allowances. A Civil Defense spokesman said that the Ministry of Finance had completed the data-approval (...)

12 - 01 - 2010
3,016 houses unfit for living, 25 unidentified bodies found
The authorities have discovered that a total of 3,016 houses are unfit to live in because of the extensive damage caused by last month's floods. This is according to the latest report issued Thursday by the Civil Defense committees tasked with (...)

25 - 12 - 2009
Life Skills students graduate
The Abdul Latif Jameel Society Service Program and the Education Department in Jeddah have held the second annual graduation ceremony for students of the Life Skills Club program. The ceremony included a review of the achievements of schools taking (...)

25 - 07 - 2009
Book, your best companion
AN activity that you can enjoy and also develop your mind through knowledge is reading a book. Al-Jaahiz, a centuries old Arab writer, advised that reading of good books can repel anxiety: “The book is a companion that does not praise you and does (...)

01 - 05 - 2009
Down the road to Deep South
A police officer directs the flow of traffic Friday morning from the exit point of Abha city into the Dhala'a mountain road that connects Abha with the deep south of the Kingdom. Expansion work on the mountain road started last year after 25 people (...)

14 - 02 - 2009
Dirty water to wash healthy food
A foreign farmer washes vegetables with untreated sewage water Tuesday in Wadi Abha in the Asir region. Water tankers have been noticed to fill up from sewage-contaminated wells and distribute water loads to vegetable farms in Asir for irrigation (...)

04 - 02 - 2009
Overweight man seeks help
kg man in his late 40s have called on the humans rights bodies in the Kingdom to help transfer their obese son to a government hospital after a fall which left him in a coma. The family said that they have reached an agreement with the Ministry of (...)

14 - 11 - 2008
Life after prison: Roadblocks to social re-entry
For the many prisoners released every day from the Kingdom's prisons, the punishment does not stop when they step out of the prison gate. Sure they have their freedom back, but they also have a host of challenges to overcome as they try to (...)

24 - 10 - 2008
10 tons of expired food seized
The Municipality of Khamees Mushayt seized some 10 tons of out-of-date food and material used in the forging of expiry dates in a warehouse in the Sena'iah District. The warehouse owner is an Arab national and was not apprehended in the raid in (...)

23 - 10 - 2008
Stepmother shot to death
year-old man allegedly shot his stepmother dead in Barig, in the Al-Majaridah Governorate, 200 km west of Abha. The bullet hit her in the chest and she was rushed to Al-Majaridah General Hospital, where she later died. Abdullah Ayidh Al-Qarni, (...)

28 - 09 - 2008
Qat selling woman arrested
A woman has been arrested for allegedly selling the banned herb qat in Umm Sarar District in the Industrial Estate on Friday. On a tip off, agents of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Khamis raided the woman's home (...)

21 - 09 - 2008
Search on for man swept away by floods
Civil Defense teams in Mahayel Asir are continuing to search for the body of a man swept away by floods. Two other bodies were found in Ain Aal Ghoraib, north of Mahayel Asir, 100 kilometers from the site where they drowned. The spokesman for the (...)

21 - 09 - 2008
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