RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's Yamama Cement Company signed an SR4.2 billion contract with Germany's ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions here Tuesday night to build two new cement plants. The production facilities with an overall capacity of 20,000 tons of clinker will be built at a new site around 80 kilometers east of the Saudi capital city of Riyadh.

RIYADH: Abdullatif Al-Othman, governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), will travel to Russia with a huge business delegation Tuesday.

RIYADH: The 4th Summit of Arab-South American States (ASPA), chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman, has resolved to collaborate and cooperate in different sectors to develop “strategic partnership” between the two major economic blocs of the world.

RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman opened the 4th Summit of the Arab and South American Countries (ASPA) on Tuesday by urging world leaders to help solve regional disputes, especially the Palestinian problem, and seek closer political and economic ties.

RIYADH: Arab and South American nations will seek to boost social, political and economic ties at their fourth summit starting Tuesday, said Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Monday.

RIYADH: Saudi Ambassador to the UK Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf has warned of "potentially serious repercussions" of a breakdown in relations with Britain, which no longer reciprocates on issues with similar trust and respect.

RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman held talks with visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry here on Saturday, discussing bilateral relations and the security situation in the region with special reference to Syria.

RIYADH: Moving ahead with the process to complete a major upgrade to the data-center infrastructure, Detecon Al-Saudia is working closely to further increase its capacity while maintaining the high quality standards of the services provided in the Kingdom.

RIYADH: ThyssenKrupp Saudi Arabia Contracting Ltd. ranks today as one of the best global companies offering a range of industrial solutions, products and world-class technology.

RIYADH: Boeing, a US multinational giant that manufactures and sells airplanes, rotorcraft and satellites, has signed an agreement with Saudia Aerospace Engineering Industries (SAEI) and Alsalam Aircraft Company to establish the Saudi Rotorcraft Support Center in Saudi Arabia. The deal, announced here Thursday, will boost capabilities of the Kingdom in commercial and defense aviation sectors.

RIYADH: Key regional issues, with special reference to the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, will top the agenda of talks between Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) foreign ministers in the Saudi capital on Tuesday.

JEDDAH: The Cabinet on Monday lauded the positive and fruitful talks carried out between Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and US President Barack Obama, said Minister of Water and Electricity and acting Minister of Culture and Information Eng. Abdullah bin Abdulrahman Al-Husain in a statement following the session.

The US has reaffirmed its support for Saudi-led military action taken in Yemen, saying that the goal eventually is to achieve peace and stability in that country through a negotiated political solution.

RIYADH: The Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) in collaboration with the Council of Saudi Chambers (CSC) and the US-Saudi Business Council will host the high-profile US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington on Friday to highlight the diverse and exciting investment opportunities in the Kingdom.

RIYADH: Motor giant Abdul Latif Jameel (ALJ) and Toyota launched here Wednesday night the eighth-generation Hilux, which goes on sale across the Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia this week.

RIYADH: A top Cisco executive has called on companies and organizations to be more vigilant in developing integrated security solutions as cyber attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated.

RIYADH: New Zealand Ambassador Hamish MacMaster has announced the names of Saudi scholarship winners to travel to New Zealand as part of a government social media competition.

RIYADH: “To say he was the former Indian president, or the first scientist to occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan, and a man with an inspiring life story would have all been true. But they would ultimately be incomplete descriptions of the enduring appeal of late APJ Abdul Kalam,” said a long-time Riyadh resident Syed Ahmed Ziauddin, who had the privilege of meeting Kalam in New Delhi way back in 2006.

RIYADH: The much-publicized case of Satinah binti Jumadi Ahmad, 41, an Indonesian maid jailed in Saudi Arabia since 2009 for killing her employer’s wife and stealing money, could be nearing an end soon.

RIYADH: Federica Mogherini, foreign policy chief of the European Union, will visit Saudi Arabia on Monday to discuss a range of regional issues, including the international nuclear deal with Tehran, which has been met with concern in the Middle East.

RIYADH: Sensor equipped objects and their networks — what Cisco calls the Internet of Everything (IoE) — will generate SR59.1 billion in value for the public sector of Saudi Arabia over the next decade, says Mohammed Alabbadi, the newly-appointed general manager of Cisco Systems Saudi Arabia.

RIYADH: Turkish construction giant Yuksel Insaat has won a SR2.29 billion ‘Riyadh Rapid Bus Transit System’ (BRT) project, which is part of the impressive King Abdulaziz Transport System plan.

RIYADH: A major Saudi-Czech business meeting has been canceled by the Kingdom because of anti-Islam statements made by a Czech official targeting Islamic countries, Abdul Rahman Al-Zamil, president of the Council of Saudi Chambers (CSC), confirmed on Wednesday.

French President Francois Hollande will become the first foreign head of state to attend a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in Riyadh on Tuesday.

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman met with Romanian Prime Minister Victor-Viorel Ponta in Ryadh on Thursday to discuss regional security and terrorism issues, and aspects of bilateral cooperation in various fields. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) for closer cooperation in education between the Kingdom and Romania was also signed during the meeting.