RIYADH — Lt. Col. Hassan Saleh Al-Hassan,Riyadh Traffic Department spokesman, disclosed that a campaign against joy riders has begun. It has led to impounding of 500 cars, including cars belonging to joy riders and those moving in their motorcade, (...)
Saudi Gazette report
JEDDAH — Workers in the gold market say transporting jewelry from workshops to the stores is done in a primitive way without adequate safety precautions. The finished items are even packaged in cheap bags that do reflect the (...)
Mariam Nihal
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — Despite the expanding rate of obesity in the Kingdom, the high prices of gyms are putting off women from daily physical exercise.
Many women who spoke to Saudi Gazette complained that gyms for women cost up to (...)
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai suggested Thursday that foreign members be removed from the country's election watchdog, in a step that could be aimed at bolstering his grip on power.
Two members of the five-member Electoral Complaints (...)
The lack of male role models in families is more likely to cause children to feel depressed, become antisocial with behavioral difficulties and more prone to substance abuse and violence. With the rising numbers of divorce cases and single-parent (...)
Saudi Gazette recently interviewed a number of Egyptian nationals living in the Kingdom regarding elections for a new parliament in Egypt and their hopes, fears and expectations for the future. Here is what they had to say:
Ayman Al-Khouli, Head of (...)
TUNIS: Tunisia wants to have ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family arrested and put on trial for theft and currency offenses, the justice minister said Wednesday.
The international police organization Interpol has been asked to (...)
TUNIS: Squads of men shot at random from cars in Tunis Saturday and inmates staged a mass jailbreak as leaders sought to map out Tunisia's political future after the president was swept from power.
It was not clear who the assailants were but a (...)
Major Shiite groups have formed a new alliance that will exclude the Iraqi prime minister, lawmakers said Monday, a move likely to stoke fears of increasing Iranian influence and shake up the political landscape ahead of January parliamentary (...)
Although the global economic crisis has led to a significant drop in real estate prices worldwide, the real estate market in the Kingdom seems to have taken no notice, as rents continue to go up here while they are falling in the rest of the (...)
A RESTORED and pacified Iraq is determined to regain its proper place in the Middle East and on the international scene. This is the optimistic message which Vice President Adil Abd Al-Mahdi brought this week to France – a country which he sees as a (...)
Six people were believed to have drowned
after a German sailing boat capsized off the port of Mahdia north of
the Moroccan capital Rabat in stormy weather, DPA quoted Moroccan police sources
as saying today.
Two days after the accident occurred (...)
