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Articles of the author Muhammad Al Zahrani Okaz
Schools cannot withhold student records
The Ministry of Education has reemphasized to private schools that the practice to withhold diplomas and records of students whose parents fail to pay tuition fees will not be tolerated. New guidelines have been released by the ministry calling (...)

23 - 05 - 2012
Experts debate MoL's plan to blacklist Saudis
Following an increase in the number of unemployed workers claiming unemployment benefits to well over a million, the Ministry of Labor recently announced plans to blacklist job seekers it considers “uncommitted” to finding work or reluctant to (...)

21 - 05 - 2012
HRDF sets terms to help Saudi job seekers
The Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF) will only support a Saudi job seeker for a total of 24 months at two different private sector companies, the organization announced on its website recently. This is one of several conditions the HRDF has (...)

05 - 05 - 2012
50 workers face probe over nude photos of Taif rehab inmates
Officials and 50 workers of the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center in Taif are likely to be investigated after nude photos of some inmates were posted on several websites, according to sources. The photos show special care workers removing the (...)

04 - 05 - 2012
Plans to raise Saudization level in car rental offices
The Chairman of the Car Rental Committee in Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) Sa'eed Bin Ali Al-Bassami disclosed a number of studies are underway to upgrade the tourism sector in the Kingdom. Al-Bassami said the most important among (...)

24 - 03 - 2012
‘Work permit renewal for red firms stopped'
Adel Fakieh, Minister of Labor, has said that companies falling in the Nitaqat red zone will not be able to renew the work permits for their expatriate workers unless they rectify their situation. As per the details released on the minister's (...)

23 - 03 - 2012
GOSI retirees get 15% raise
The General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) will raise the cost of living allowance to 15 percent of the pension of retirees as of the 1st of Jumad Al-Awwal, 1433H (March 24, 2012). This was disclosed by Sulaiman Bin Saad Al-Humaid, (...)

21 - 03 - 2012
Chicken prices up as firms use up govt subsidy
National poultry companies have already used up the SR350 million government subsidy granted last July. Now the prices of frozen poultry have risen to SR15.25 a kilo and SR16.5 for 1.1 kilos. One kilo of national poultry now costs between (...)

07 - 02 - 2012
Fight for cement turns violent in Taif
Angry citizens on Wednesday attacked cement trucks in Taif and took away bags of cement without paying. They also attacked a representative from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The event has put pressure on concerned authorities to find an (...)

03 - 02 - 2012
Saudis who refuse to work for Hafiz benefits may be penalized
The Ministry of Labor is studying a proposal to penalize beneficiaries of the Hafiz Unemployment Aid Program who turn down suitable job offers, said a senior source at the ministry. He added that Saudis will only qualify for the aid if they meet (...)

29 - 01 - 2012
SCTA: Strict action against erring hotels
The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) has warned that it will impose hefty fines of up to SR10,000 and withdraw the licenses of hotels and furnished apartments violating pricing regulations during the spring season. A source also (...)

25 - 01 - 2012
Border Guard beef up marine and land patrols
The Border Guard has beefed up its marine and land patrols to ensure a safe and secure Haj, said Lt. Gen. Zamim Bin Jubair Al-Sawat, Director General of the Border Guard. Al-Sawat said 1,688 officers and non-commissioned officers have been selected (...)

02 - 11 - 2011
Database connects crimes and criminals
Maj. Gen. Khider Bin Ayidh Al-Zahrani, assistant director for Security Affairs, said a new system helps police investigate crimes by using computers to determine if there are records of similar criminal activity. He said the system's database (...)

17 - 09 - 2010
Phone firms fined SR66m for spams
The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has fined telephone companies approximately SR66 million for sending unsolicited bulk text messages - spam - to mobile telephones. Dhaifallah Al-Zahrani, Deputy Governor for Legal (...)

19 - 06 - 2010
Poorly-planned airport area gives Jeddah ‘bad' look
Areas surrounding airports give visitors their first glimpse and impression of a city, and the Jeddah airport area has for decades given the wrong impression to millions of visitors every year. Poor city planning has turned the airport area into an (...)

05 - 02 - 2010
Haramain Train study takes flood precautions
The Railways Authority is studying sections of the planned route of the Haramain Train that could be threatened by flooding in the future. An official at the authority said that sections passing through the governorate of Jeddah could involve (...)

11 - 12 - 2009
Huthi rebels sought sea access: Military experts
The infiltration of Saudi territory over the last week was an attempt to gain access to coastal areas to which arms and ammunition arrive on the Yemeni side of the border, and to reach the weapons markets open to the public in villages lying right (...)

09 - 11 - 2009
No domestic violence cases in Ramadan
The Social Protection Committee has said that not a single instance of domestic violence has been registered with them since the beginning of Ramadan. Abdan Al-Zahrani said that the Social Protection Home during the same period had not been charged (...)

15 - 09 - 2009
Ban on sale of cars on streets
The Traffic Department in different regions of the Kingdom has moved to tow away cars offered for sale from the streets. Field committees are carrying out tours of the districts and public parking lots to look for violating cars. Maj. Ali (...)

10 - 08 - 2009
No fines for failing to fingerprint
Zahrani, Acting Director of Makkah's Passports Department, has denied that persons failing to register their fingerprints before May 25 will be fined. Al-Zahrani moved to dispel rumors that had caused large number of residents to head for (...)

27 - 05 - 2009
Jordan university expels Saudi brothers
A Jordanian university has expelled two fourth-year Saudi undergraduates for what it says was a “breach of meetings and symposiums regulations” following the intervention of one of the students at an open meeting with the Saudi Cultural Attaché, Ali (...)

27 - 05 - 2009
Schools in Taif get face-lift
Taif Girls' Education Administration has begun putting into effect plans for renovation and maintenance work on 492 schools at a total cost of SR32.5 million. Salem Helal Al-Zahrani, Director General of Education in Taif, said that the companies (...)

09 - 05 - 2009
Municipal councils ‘not ready to employ women'
The time is not ripe for municipal councils to employ women, a city council official here said. Hassan Al-Zahrani, vice chairman of the municipal council here said that the councils are still in their inception stage and need time before involving (...)

07 - 05 - 2009
Prestigious Jeddah Economic Forum shelved
The Jeddah Economic Forum (JEF), once the most prestigious event on the Gulf-Middle East region's business networking calendar, has been shelved “indefinitely,” it was announced here Thursday. The reason cited for doing away with the annual forum (...)

09 - 01 - 2009
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