Divorced Saudi Mothers Win New Rights To Child Custody
Justice Minister, Higher Judiciary Council President Shaikh Walid Al-Samaani has eased legal measures for Saudi divorcees to enjoy the custody rights.
Divorce women will not be forced anymore to lo...
March 11, 201801078Category: General
Saudi Women Celebrate Women's Day
Paying no heed to bemused onlookers, a group of women in Jeddah marked International Women's Day on Thursday by exercising one of their newly acquired freedoms: the right to go for a jog.
Saudi...
March 09, 201801113Category: General
Makkah Governorate Stop Jeddah Spring Festival After A Cub Attacked A Girl
The Deputy Emir of Makkah Province Prince Abdullah Bin Bandar ordered on Wednesday to stop the Jeddah Spring Festival after a cub attacked a girl. Both the organizer and the cub trainer are under inve...
March 09, 201801143Category: General
Mervat Bukhari Has Become The First Saudi Woman To Work At A Petrol Station
Mervat Bukhari has become the first Saudi woman to work at a petrol station in the city of Al-Khobar in the eastern province. A picture of Mervat as she holds a refueling hose at a petrol station...
March 09, 201801431Category: General
Saudi Man Sues MOE For Using His Photo In School Book
A Saudi man filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Education for using his photo in one of their schoolbooks without his knowledge or permission. In the lawsuit, Mohammed Hamdan accused the mini...
March 09, 201801094Category: General
Ministry Of Health's Performance As Below Expectation - Shoura Council
Shoura Council members labelled the Ministry of Health’s performance as ”below expectation” and feared that the ministry did not keep pace with the goals of Vision 2030 after reading...
March 09, 201801042Category: General
Viral Video Shows Two Children Chained To Apartment Window In Tabuk
Police are investigating a viral video that showed two children clinging to the window of a building in Tabuk, Al-Hayat newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The children were apparently chained to the ...
March 07, 201801089Category: General
No Jail For Using Mobile Phones, Not Wearing Seatbelts While Driving
Motorists who use mobile phones while driving or do not fasten seatbelts will not be detained, the General Directorate of Public Security has clarified.
The Traffic Department recently started elec...
March 07, 201801088Category: General
Saudi Cost Of Living Index Positive In January 2018
Saudi Arabia’s credit to the private sector rose on a monthly basis for the first time in five months in January 2018 (+0.2% m-o-m; -1% y-o-y), while the bank claims to the public sector also in...
March 06, 201801124Category: General
Ministry Formed A Committee To Investigate Girls Escaping Jeddah Shelter
The Ministry of Labor and Social Development has formed a committee to look into the escape of two inmates from Women Hospitality Home in Jeddah. Ministry spokesman Khalid Abalkhail said 26 inmat...
March 06, 201801060Category: General
Brexit Opens UK For Greater Business Opportunities With Kingdom - Crown Prince
People in the UK and Saudi Arabia are much safer if the two countries have a close relationship, the Kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has said in an interview with British national. Th...
March 06, 201801061Category: General
King Salman Promises Football Stadium For Iraq In A Phone Call With PM Abadi
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman promised to build Iraq a football stadium following a friendly match between the two countries’ teams last week, in a phone call with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider...
March 06, 201801093Category: General
YouTube Playing A Big Role In Recruiting Terrorists By Spreading Videos Of Daesh
Saudi Public Prosecutor has accused YouTube of playing a big role in recruiting terrorists by spreading videos of Daesh (the so-called IS) leaders that encourage young men and women to join the terror...
March 06, 201801049Category: General
Shoura Council Asked For Increase The Number Of Prosecutors
In a resolution at its 21st ordinary session, the Shoura Council on Monday asked for an increase in the number of prosecutors to suit the new powers of the public prosecutor’s office and to achi...
March 06, 201801004Category: General
Pakistani Man Loses Life Over 65 Saudi Riyal Gas Bill
A loyal and hardworking Pakistani attendant at a fuel station in the Eastern Province lost his life for an unpaid bill worth SR65 only. According to reports, the attendant died while chasing some flee...
March 06, 201802819Category: General
12 Saudi Women Joined in a Training For Air Traffic Controllers
A total of 12 Saudi women on Sunday joined a training course for air traffic controllers, the first in the Kingdom for women. At the end of the training they will be hired as air traffic controll...
March 06, 201801323Category: General
An Indian Woman Pilgrim Dies On Flight
An Indian woman from the state of Telangana died on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight as she was heading from the city of the Medina to Hyderabad. The plane made an emergency landing at Muscat Inte...
March 06, 201802436Category: General
Philippine Govt May Withdraw Workers From Saudi Arabia
The Philippine government is currently striving to persuade its citizens working in Saudi Arabia to return home by providing them with opportunities to work there or in other countries, the News Netwo...
March 06, 2018222083Category: General
Ministry Has No Plan To Impose Umrah Fees On Pilgrims
The Ministry of Haj and Umrah has categorically refuted social media rumors that it will impose fees on domestic Umrah pilgrims, Al-Madina Arabic newspaper reported on Monday. Social media was ag...
March 06, 201801168Category: General