TWO delegates from Saudi Arabia, including members of the Saudi Indian Business Network (SIBN), attended the recently-concluded Third Edition of the Global Exhibition on Services and the Kingdom's stall was one of the most visited. The Indian (...)
NEW DELHI — Cricket's world governing body (ICC) said Monday that its anti-corruption unit was probing the Hong Kong team but ruled out any match-fixing angle to its investigation.
A day after ICC anti-corruption unit head Ronnie Flanagan revealed (...)
three Saudi women accused of association with Al-Qaeda and Daesh (so-called IS) are currently being tried in the Kingdom. Some of them have been convicted and jailed.
According to official sources, the Special Criminal Court began hearing the cases (...)
four of the index's 30 components rose, but IBM dragged the industrials lower. The technology giant reported a decline in sales, sending the company's shares down nearly 5 percent.
Intel reported lower profits and sales late Tuesday, and its shares (...)
one female workers have stopped working at lingerie shops here complaining about the poor pay structure and long working hours.
The workers, from the first batch of saleswomen employed after the Ministry of Labor made it mandatory that only women (...)
eight chambers of commerce throughout the Kingdom have been told by the Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) to either pay SR20 million in attestation fees or else face prosecution. The warning was made in a letter in which the CPA threatened to demand (...)
one North Koreans were found in a boat that floated into South Korean waters earlier this week in the Yellow Sea, the largest such arrival in nine months, an official said Saturday.
The arrivals were being questioned, and it wasn't yet clear how or (...)
year-old Diana became The Princess of Wales when she married Charles in 1981. It was widely billed as a “fairytale wedding”, watched by a global television audience of 750 million. She wore a dress valued at £9,000 with a 25-foot (8-meter) train. (...)
six cases of dengue fever have been recorded in the last weeks, according to Anas Al-Baloushi, head of Jeddah Preventive Health.
“We had 61 suspected cases, 30 last week and 31 this week, resulting in 20 confirmed cases from last week and a further (...)
year-old Saima was electrocuted to death Friday in Bahawalpur district on the orders of a panchayat comprised of her father and three uncles, because she had eloped with a man of her choosing. That same week, Najma Bibi was paraded around her (...)
five observation teams from the Ministry of Agriculture are monitoring the annual migration of birds as cold weather in Europe and Russia has increased their numbers, but no diseased birds have been found, said Jabir Al-Shihri, a Ministry (...)
eight people, mostly Thai tourists, were killed Monday when their double-decker bus crashed after a trip to the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia's worst-ever coach accident.
Police said the Thai holidaymakers were travelling along a winding road to (...)
eight of the index's 30 components fell, with Microsoft, Intel, American Express, and Alcoa each sinking more than 2.3 percent. Wal-Mart, JP Morgan Chase, and Verizon were the only stocks making gains.
The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell (...)
seven years after the murder of opposition leader and former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., his daughters say the search for the brains behind his assassination is over, and that the Aquino family has already achieved justice.
Ma. Elena (...)
three students have won various prizes at the Qur'an Maher International Competition. Six students were honored with the international prize for service to the Holy Qur'an. Ten individuals and institutions supporting the contest were also (...)
eight women were caught for drug smuggling during the beginning of 2008 and the middle of 2010, three of them Saudis, Al-Riyadh Arabic daily reported on Monday.
Abdullah Al-Kharboush, Saudi Customs spokesman, told Al-Riyadh that some of the women (...)
one government hospitals have been awarded certificates of Central Board of Accreditation for Healthcare Institutions (CBAHI), Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeah, Minister of Health, said here Sunday.
The hospitals were subjected to 881 international standards (...)
five percent of the opium crop will be likely destroyed by 2010 and might not been able to meet the world demand. Yet the world is not short of opium: there has been an oversupply since 2006.”
– Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the (...)
one ambassadors and consuls along with other officials gather for a group photograph at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust) on Thursday. The visit gave the opportunity for foreign missions to tour the university where some (...)
year-old Saudi national, Dakhil Awwadhallah Al-Mu'badi, has approached the National Society for Human Rights seeking help in putting an end to a court case that has dragged on for about 18 months, and in which he is accused of posing as a policeman (...)
two books published in 1970 and not considered for the Booker Prize because of a reorganization of the rules could finally win the prestigious literary award 40 years on, organizers said Monday.
The list of candidates includes several winners of (...)
five girls from various levels of the school education system have qualified as “Preachers for the Future”, in the first graduating group from a three-month course organized by Dar Al-Nadwa of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth.
The program, (...)
four of the index's 30 components rose, led by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Travelers, 3M, Chevron, and Caterpillar.
The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 5.02, or 0.5 percent, to 1,096.78. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose (...)
two Indian engineers who arrived in the capital ostensibly on stolen Saudi work visas have urged Saudi authorities to intervene and help them leave the Kingdom at the earliest possible date.
Their frustration is increasing since the first hearing (...)
eight bodies of people thought to have died during the Jeddah floods have been added to the list of missing persons after DNA testing failed to match them to any of the 37 on the official list of those reported as missing by relatives, authorities (...)
