RIYADH, 1 February 2008 — A series of daytime robberies, attacks, car thefts and purse-snatchings committed by organized crime groups in certain areas of Riyadh have alarmed expatriates and citizens alike. “Even those working for media and government agencies are not safe,” said Mojib ibn Raza Siddiquee, whose car was stolen on Tuesday from the parking lot of his office. Siddiquee, who works for the Saudi Research & Publishing Company (SRPC), lodged a complaint with the local police.
Riyadh: A south African nurse, who has missing from Riyadh since November, has called her family from an undisclosed location in the Kingdom where she is supposedly being held. Dannelene Noach, 54, who had been working at a hospital in Riyadh for around seven years, went missing last year after blowing the whistle on alleged irregularities at the hospital where she worked.
General Electric Company (GE), the $173 billion diversified technology giant, will support Saudi Arabian Airline’s ambitious plan to launch overhaul services of engines, which will finally lead to the building of a new state-of-the art facility at the Jeddah-based king Abdul Aziz Airport within the next 18 months, Jaffrey R. Immelt, GE’s board chairman & chief executive officer, said here yesterday during a press conference.