This year, Haj will take place in mid-October, five months from now. That’s not a lot of time in which to try to gain control over the new coronavirus, MERS-CoV, that is slowly percolating in Saudi Arabia. The last thing the Saudis or the WHO want is for the annual gathering of pilgrims in Mecca [...]
U.A.E.-based construction firm Arabtec Holding said a joint venture between its Saudi unit and Greece's Terna S.A. has been awarded a 404 million Saudi riyal (USD 110 million) contract to build a hospital and medical center in Riyadh.
In this excerpt
from the latest ECFR policy
briefing
on Syria, the authors argue
that a rare moment of opportunity has emerged following the US-Russian
agreement to launch peace initiative, Geneva II. Europ...
The take-away is that Syria's war is not a sectarian war, and that western visions of a new post-Assad government under the leadership of the gangs of 'secular' and 'jihadi' militants, assuming they could tell them apart at this point, is not a formula that would be accepted by Syrians who see themselves as "caught between two devils". Bringing down the regime (rather than the narrower goal of replacing Assad) is more likely to lead to a failed Syrian state run by jihadist mobs somewhat in the mould of Somalia, rather than a stable, liberal, rebel-led government. It didn't work in Iraq or Libya, why would we expect it to work in Syria?
As of May 20, 75,000 Indians have registered with the Indian Embassy in Riyadh and the Consulate in Jeddah to be processed and be send back with 'emergency certificate'.
Tehran on Thursday denied a Bahraini claim it had found an Iranian drone in the sea near Saudi Arabia, and urged Manama to refrain from making “english.alarabiya.net/.../Not-ours-says-Iran-of-drone-found-of...
Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid is here to discuss matters of bilateral interest, including the Nitaqat law, as the Indian missions in Saudi Arabia scramble to help over 55,000 Indian workers leave the kingdom in adherence to its new s...
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arrived in Jeddah on Saturday for talks with the Saudi Arabian leadership on a wide range of issues, including the controversial 'Nitaqat law' and on
Saudi’s ‘Nitaqat’ law: 75,000 Indians set to return, numbers could go up The ‘Nitaqat’ programme, which is meant to regularise foreign workers, makes it mandatory for local companies to hire one Saudi national for every 10 migrant workers. Those who fail to find another job or a sponsor have to go back. As a result […]
The Saudi riyal peg to the US dollar will continue as it serves the national economic interest of the Kingdom as well as of those which have chosen to keep the peg like Qatar and others in the GCC, says a senior Riyadh-based economist.
Saudi Fransi Capital has launched its new fund, the Saudi Fransi Real Estate Fund. The new fund seeks to achieve capital growth, by developing lands and real estate projects, along with the possibility of generating income stream by acquiring existing ...
Internet usage has increased by 16% in Saudi Arabia, with a 10% growth in the number of providers expected by the end of this year.Internet providers said that modern and smart technologies are helping to increase Internet use as services are available...
