To Avoid Wedding Bill, Saudi Celebrate Marriage in Corniche
A Saudi man, keen to avoid exorbitant expenses, celebrated his wedding in an open-air ceremony on the corniche of the Red Sea resort of Jeddah.
“I was shocked by the expenses I would have to pay if I celebrated the wedding in a hall,” Abdullah Abdul Adhim, the groom, ...
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Saudi executes 5 Yemenis and hangs bodies in Public
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed five Yemenis and displayed their bodies in public for killing a national and forming a gang that committed robberies across several towns in the kingdom, the interior ministry said.
The five were executed in the southwestern town of Jizan, bringing the number of people executed ...
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Egyptian Embassy Helps 2000 to change Status & find Job
Egypt has gone to great lengths to rectify the legal status of its nationals in Saudi Arabia, said Hossam Issa, an Egyptian diplomat.
The Egyptian Labor Bureau has contacted employers with job opportunities who can transfer sponsorships. It has already succeeded in providing 2,000 alternative jobs to Egyptian citizens ...
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20% of the Saudi Companies are in Red Zone
Twenty percent of Saudi firms are still in the red zone two years after the implementation of Nitaqat program, said Ahmed Al-Hemaidan, undersecretary at the Ministry of Labor, stressing the fact that they are bound to move to the green zone once penalties are imposed on them.
Al-Hemaidan explained ...
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Tourism Visa on Arrival at Indian Airport for Saudi's
The Indian Tourism Ministry has announced that Saudis traveling in tours arranged by a tour operator can now obtain their visa on arrival at any airport in India.
The announcement came on the occasion of the 2nd India Tourism Road Show organized by the Indian Embassy and the India ...
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Vegetagle Seller ablazed himself when police Seized Goods
A Saudi Arabian vegetable seller, who set himself on fire in the capital Riyadh on Thursday to express discontent over social and economic injustices in the kingdom, has died.
Saudi media reported on Sunday that the man set himself ablaze after police seized his goods for standing in an ...
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Illegal Expats can come back to Saudi on a New Visa
Expats who leave the Kingdom on an exit visa will be able to return the moment they get a new work visa, said Deputy Minister of Labor Mufarrej bin Saad Al-Haqbani.
In an exclusive interview yesterday, he stressed that his ministry has urged companies to recruit those who are ...
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Woman to Assemble Mercedes Trucks
Thirteen Saudi women have been trained to assemble trucks for Mercedes-Benz and its Jeddah partner, marking a breakthrough in having women work in a male-dominated job in the Kingdom.
Khaled Juffali, chairman of the Juffali Automotive Company, made the announcement during a visit by Commerce & Industry Minister Tawfiq ...
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MoH recruits 2,323 foreign doctors
he Kingdom has hired 2,323 doctors from seven countries to ensure health care services accross the Kingdom, a senior official from the Ministry of Health announced yesterday.
Ministry spokesman Khalid Al-Mirghalani said that these doctors were recruited over the past three years from Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, the US, Britain, ...
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Consulate adopts new system to help Illegal Filipino workers
The Philippine Consulate in Jeddah has launched a new system to facilitate the processing of paperwork of illegal Filipino workers who either want to be repatriated to the Philippines or who wish to rectify their status and continue working in the Kingdom before the July 3 deadline.
“We now ...
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