Earth Hour: Saudi Arabia goes dark to shine light on climate change
Author: Madinah-Yusuf Mohammed and Nada Hameed, Arab NewsMon, 2017-03-27ID: 1490592047916665100 Cities across Saudi Arabia marked Earth Hour on Saturday by asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for an hour, as part of the world’s largest event dedicated to the environment. From 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 pm, many areas in Madinah and Jeddah were […]
Love in the streets of Jeddah: How one public display of affection went viral
Author: AISHA FAREED | ARAB NEWS STAFFMon, 2017-03-27ID: 1490620559348471900 JEDDAH: Love knows no limits — it is an adage that was proven in Jeddah this week as an unknown person confessed love for their significant other by writing on the sidewalk of a well-known street in the city. Some people may choose roses, jewelry or even chocolate, […]
Saudi Justice Ministry announces new initiatives to promote work
Author: SHARIF M. TAHAMon, 2017-03-27ID: 1490558734942615300 RIYADH: The Ministry of Justice has announced initiatives to support the National Transformation Program 2020 to shorten litigation procedures, reduce flow of cases to the courts and boost the national economy. The initiatives also include achieving institutional excellence, according to the ministry. The first initiative focuses on mobile notaries, which are […]
Development projects in Al-Leith, Adham valued at SR1.8 billion
Author: MOHAMMED AL-SULAMIMon, 2017-03-27ID: 1490558734802614400AL-LEITH: The value of accomplished and ongoing development projects in Al-Leith and Adham in western Saudi Arabia is estimated at more than SR1.8 billion ($480 million), an official has said. Prince Khalid Al-Faisal, adviser to King Salman and Governor of Makkah Region, visited the areas under the guidance of King Salman. His trip […]
Houthis committed ‘massacres’ in Yemen: Report
Author: ARAB NEWSMon, 2017-03-27ID: 1490558734912614700JEDDAH: Large-scale “massacres” have been perpetrated in Yemen by Houthi militias and forces loyal to ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a recent report has found.Yemen’s National Human Rights Commission pointed to crimes against unarmed civilians including indiscriminate shelling of residential compounds and popular markets, using artillery and Katyusha rocket launchers. The report described […]
Sudan, Saudi to hold first joint air force drill
Author: Agence France PresseMon, 2017-03-27ID: 1490558734962615900KHARTOUM: Sudan said Sunday it will begin this week a joint air force drill with Saudi Arabia, the first such maneuvers since Khartoum allied with Riyadh after breaking ties with Tehran in 2015.The exercises will be held Wednesday until April 12 in Meroe, north of Khartoum, and will involve hundreds of air […]
Saudi Arabia imposes ban on importing live birds from Malaysia, part of US
Author: ARAB NEWSMon, 2017-03-27ID: 1490558734932615000RIYADH: The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture has announced a temporary ban on the import of live birds, hatching eggs and chicks from the state of Tennessee in the US based on a warning issued by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).The warning stemmed from the discovery of a highly pathogenic […]
4th Saudi Film Festival to focus on strengthening nascent industry
Author: ARAB NEWSMon, 2017-03-27ID: 1490558734952615600DAMMAM: The fourth edition of the Saudi Film Festival begins Monday evening in Dhahran.The Culture and Arts Association in Dammam, in association with King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, has organized the event. The festival, extending over six days, includes the participation of 58 Saudi films, according to SPA. The festival will also […]
Saudi Justice Ministry spurns ‘negative’ police stations for homelike centers in child custody cases
Author: LULWA SHALHOUBMon, 2017-03-27ID: 1490558017522519200 JEDDAH: The Ministry of Justice will establish child custody visitation centers in collaboration with the non-profit sector to offer a safer, healthier and entertaining space for divorced parents to collect their children. The centers allow parents to spend time with their children instead of meeting at police stations, according to the new […]
Former Dutch envoy to hold lecture on Bedouin culture and poetry in Riyadh
Author: RODOLFO C. ESTIMO JR.Mon, 2017-03-27ID: 1490558017492518300 RIYADH: The Netherlands Embassy will hold a lecture on Bedouin culture and poetry on Monday night in Riyadh. Dutch Ambassador Joost Reintjes said the lecture, titled “The Last Bedouin,” will be delivered by Marcel Kurpershoek, former Dutch deputy ambassador to Saudi Arabia and former ambassador to Turkey, Pakistan and Poland. […]
