Total Of 1,186,449 Final Exit Visas Were Issued Last Year
A total of 1,186,449 final exit visas were issued last year by the Department of Passports (Jawazat), reported Arabic newspaper Al-Madina on Monday.
The Jawazat carried out more than 23 million ele...
March 13, 201804099Category: General
Renovation Project Will Be Completed By The Middle Of April
Prince Abdullah Bin Bandar, acting emir of Makkah, on Monday inspected the ongoing renovation work of the Zamzam well in Makkah.
About 90 percent of the work has already been completed and the seve...
March 13, 201801064Category: General
Bangladesh Plane Carrying 71 People Crashes At Nepal Airport
A US-Bangla Airlines passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed on Monday while coming in to land at the airport in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, an airport official said. Victims' bodies ha...
March 12, 201801667Category: Others
Citizen Faces Legal Action After Making A Toddler Smoke
A Saudi national is facing legal action on charges of pushing a small child, barely aged 3, to smoke with him.
The man, in his twenties, appeared in a video recording as he was putting a cigarette ...
March 11, 201801048Category: General
Health Authorities Closed Down A Private Hospital In Northern Jeddah
Health authorities closed down a private hospital in northern Jeddah for serious violations on Thursday. Huge amounts of fine were also imposed on the hospital management.
The penal measures w...
March 11, 201801117Category: General
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, 201801107Category: 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, 201801123Category: 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, 201801151Category: 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, 201801453Category: 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, 201801105Category: 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, 201801050Category: 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, 201801097Category: 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, 201801101Category: 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, 201801131Category: 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, 201801068Category: 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, 201801073Category: 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, 201801099Category: 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, 201801055Category: 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, 201801007Category: General