Okaz
IT seems that the Ministry of Education has not provided enough media coverage for its summer programs targeting school students this year. If students do not know about the programs, how are they going to enroll in them? The weak media (...)
Okaz
The Labor Office in Al-Baha is investigating a company executing government projects in the province for delaying the salaries of 40 foreign workers for more than 10 months.
Irrespective of what the investigation says about the company or the (...)
Okaz
LIKE other Saudi universities, Taif University still employs faculty members who are aged above 60. Some of these people have been working at the university for ages.
The only difference between Taif University and other Saudi universities lies (...)
IT is our duty toward Qatar, as a sisterly country, to believe its officials when they say that the official website of the Qatar News Agency (QNA) was hacked and that the hackers put in the mouth of the agency things that it had not said.
It is (...)
Okaz
The General Director of the Directorate of Roads and Transportation in Taif has made accusations against the companies contracted to improve roads in the area by saying that there are too few of them, that they are using unsuitable or old (...)
Okaz
THE Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah has a right to dismiss 27 of its girl students after noticing that their behavior necessitated their final expulsion. The university, therefore, has every right to do so according to its own belief. The Taif (...)
Okaz
THE Judicial Conduct Commission at the Supreme Judiciary Council has issued 37 disciplinary decisions against judges over the past two years. Eleven of the judges were dismissed from service permanently while 26 others were blamed for the wrong (...)
I PERSONALLY know and all the smokers also know that smoking is bad for health. It is the most bad habit among all the generations in all age groups.
Those who have developed this bad habit are men and women in various age groups. They may be in (...)
Some 22 percent of cases being reviewed by courts involve landlords and tenants. This is a high percentage, which might discourage investors from venturing into real estate projects. A large amount of time is expended dealing with these cases. A (...)
NOTHING is more dangerous to the future of coming generations than depending, at least partially, on importing water from abroad. Therefore it is unacceptable that the minister of environment, agriculture and water talks about the possibility of (...)
THE Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) does not care, and it does not diminish its reputation when disputes and differences occur between some of its employees.
There is no organization, whether a government or a (...)
I DO not think that the mission of security men is to hunt down street vendors and to prosecute the owners of illegal stall owners. They have a greater duty to fulfill, and society needs them to keep the country safe.
We should not occupy them with (...)
HARDLY a week passes without news about the removal of illegal claims to public land.
If the encroachments reach hundreds of thousands of square meters, then we are facing a phenomenon that can't be solved with simple removal of illegally built (...)
TO best describe the pain and suffering that expatriate workers, and workers in general, go through when companies do not pay them their salaries, we have to first talk about the bureaucratic processes these workers have to go through after they are (...)
IT is a pity that six health centers in Jeddah are out of commission though construction has been completed because electricity has not been delivered to the centers.
What is most regrettable is the blame game between the Health Affairs and the (...)
Okaz
Hardly a day goes by without a news report about the closure of a restaurant, factory, warehouse or a hospital for violations committed by those facilities related to hygiene, environment and other specifications.
These regulations must be (...)
Two contradictory news stories have been published recently in our daily newspapers. The first was published by Okaz daily and was about a book whose author claimed that the faculties of law in the Kingdom's universities teach students disbelief. (...)
It is possible that Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) could have instructed its followers to print images of explosive belts on children's clothes and then market them. If by manufacturing these clothes, it aimed to promote terrorism and terrorize (...)
Some Muslim scholars are convinced that the intermingling of men and women is not permissible in Islam, basing their decision on several religious texts. On the other hand, some scholars say that such mixing is permissible, only attaching a few (...)
Okaz
The number of juvenile delinquents in Saudi Arabia has jumped to 22,810 in the past two years. This means one thing: our entire society needs to be rehabilitated and by the word "entire", I mean all family members and those who work in civil (...)
The consultancy committee at the Ministry of Islamic Affairs presented a wise suggestion to the Ministry of Interior. It was about opening the doors to media outlets — social and mainstream — to broadcast the Interior Ministry's counseling sessions (...)
Regulations in the Kingdom allow unlicensed individuals to practice the legal profession, giving a chance for impersonators to exploit the situation and make material gains.
It is quite surprising that when all other laws in the country are (...)