buses). The most important features of the project are the establishment of a rail network (Metro) that covers the entire city consisting of four metro lines with a total length of 182 km including 88 stations covering the areas of current and (...)
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Al-Riyadh newspaper
THE Council of Ministers, in its weekly meeting last Monday, decided to implement a massive public transport system for major cities in the Kingdom, including Riyadh. All phases of the transport system in the capital (...)
Over the past five years broadcasting in Saudi Arabia has grown in leaps and bounds, with stations such as Mix FM, MBC Panorama and Alef Alef being set up.
Dina Rida, from Mix FM, is one of a new generation of female Saudi broadcasters making a (...)
Trainees watch as Barista trainer shows how to make coffee.
Barista training for Filipino expatsBy Chris Lavina
RIYADH — A barista training class was recently organized by Data-Phil, a group of Filipino professionals in Jeddah who offer a (...)
training ‘caravan', while an elderly Saudi (inset) gets hands on with the Internet for the first time. — SPA
RIYADH – E-training caravans – an initiative of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology – have been travelling to (...)
Awadh, the Director of Technical Department Eng. Abdullah Safar, Director of KUNA Office in Riyadh Abdul Razzaq Al-Hazami, and the First Secretary at Kuwaiti Embassy Adel Al-Ghunayman.
Following that the Kuwaiti Ambassador accompanied by SPA (...)
Thousands of people waited in line for hours Friday to get into The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando on its opening day, as Daniel Radcliffe and other stars from the movie greeted fans at the minipark.
Aerial photos showed (...)
speed train driver in Taiwan has lost his job after being caught dozing off while travelling at nearly 300 kilometers (190 miles) an hour, media and officials said Monday.
The incident happened late last month when the train carrying hundreds of (...)
The Naif Arab University for Security Sciences is holding this week a training course entitled “Combating Nuclear Terrorism and Security of Sources”.
University president Abdul Aziz Al-Ghamdi said the course was part of the institution's response (...)
The Ministry of Labor has admitted to the failure of training and employment incentives designed to encourage the private sector to recruit more Saudi nationals.
A ministry report describes the scheme as “not effective enough” and attributed the (...)
year maintenance project.
Asked about the details of the LTR system in Riyadh, an ADA source said the final preparations to implement the project have already been made.
“The construction works have started on the two railway routes of the (...)
Strauss shot to prominence with his 1955 book “Tristes Tropiques” (A World on the Wane), a haunting account of travels and studies in the Amazon basin and one of the 20th century's major works. Levi-Strauss was a leading proponent of structuralism, (...)
Al Faisaliah Hotel and Hotel Al Khozama's Summer Training Program came to a close today as fifteen Saudi students celebrated their graduation at Al Faisaliah Hotel, a Rosewood Hotel.
The program brought highly-qualified Saudi nationals studying (...)
Flowserve Corporation, a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, and Al-Rushaid Group announced on Monday the grand opening of the largest pump manufacturing, repair and testing facility in the (...)
Officers of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice are prohibited from engaging in car chases, Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ghaith, the commission's head, said on Monday.
Sheikh Ghaith's comments came in an address he delivered at his (...)
organization labor dispute settlement committee was formed, the minister said concluding his statement by hoping that the new law would meet the aspirations of all parties of the labor market and become a new contribution to the enhancement of the (...)
four people are on trial, including three accused of mass murder for allegedly helping the plotters of the 2001 attacks on U.S. cities.
Achraf was arrested in Switzerland in September 2004, accused of stealing mobile phones and being in the country (...)