Saudi Arabia News

By Muin Abdul Majid DUBAI, July 11 -- Saudi Arabia is likely to require more than 10.8 million local and expatriate workers for its major development projects by 2014, a study has revealed.

Saudi Arabian banks may report declines in second-quarter profit after they tightened lending rules and increased provisions for bad loans.

The Society for Defending Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia said the religious police had placed the sisters' lives in danger when they arrested them and then placed them in a Riyadh women's shelter.

Three Korean construction companies have won individual orders from Saudi Arabia amounting to US$2.8 billion.

Wed, Jul 8, 2009, 09:15 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. July 08, Colombo: Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry says the aids from the international community for the Internally Displaced Persons in the North are rising day by day.

Via the Saudi Gazette : Mayor of Makkah assures best services for pilgrims . Excerpt: The Mayoralty here has adopted all possible measures to offer the best services to those performing Umrah and those who are visiting the Grand Mosque during the summer vacation and the holy month of Ramadan.

July 8, 2009 - The Institute of Clinical Research has opened one of its most popular courses to the world following a visit to the gulf region of Jeddah Saudi Arabia by its education manager.

A special court in Riyadh has convicted 330 people in what was the first known Saudi trial of suspects accused of plotting terrorist attacks on behalf of al-Qaeda, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Brunei Darussalam and Saudi Arabia enhanced air transport cooperation with the signing of Memorandum of Understanding -on new air services arrangement between the two countries.

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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has named a new ambassador to Syria after leaving the post vacant for a year, in a sign of warming relations between the two Middle East countries, Saudi media said on Tuesday.

A criminal court has issued verdicts in Saudi Arabia's first known terrorism trial for accused al-Qaida militants, the prosecution said Wednesday.

RIYADH: State-run oil giant Saudi Aramco and France's Total S.A. yesterday signed US$9.6 billion in deals with contractors to build the 400,000 barrel per day Jubail export refinery, one of the oil-rich kingdom's top projects.

Tue Jul 7, 2009 10:53am EDT - Camels are seen near a highway in the southern Yemeni city of al-Houta, the provincial capital of the Lahj province June 11, 2009.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has denied a report published by Britain's Sunday Times claiming that it would allow Israeli jets to use the kingdom's airspace in an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

RIYADH: Japanese giant Nomura said yesterday it had launched investment banking operations in Saudi Arabia, becoming the first Asian securities firm to break into the lucrative, rapidly growing market.

A Saudi diplomat said Monday that the kingdom has appointed a new ambassador to Syria, the strongest sign yet of the solidifying reconciliation between the two rival Arab nations.

RIYADH // Saudi analysts have rejected media reports that the kingdom has given permission to Israel to use its air space for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

Former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf has reportedly contacted the concerned authorities in the Saudi Arabia regarding the release of a Pakistani family, which has been detained there on charges of drug trafficking.

RIYADH: Saudi exporters urged the government on Saturday to slap import duties on Chinese exports, including steel and plastics, to retaliate for what they claim was the planned imposition of a duty on Saudi methanol exports.