RIYADH: Singapore’s biggest ground handler at Changi Airport, SATS, is investing about SR108 million to build new air cargo facilities at King Fahd International Airport (KFIA) in Dammam. The move is part of an ambitious plan to expand SATS reach in the Asia Pacific and Middle East, said top Singapore officials while speaking to Arab News in Singapore recently.
RIYADH: A flurry of diplomatic activity will be witnessed by the Kingdom during the next few weeks, indicating the readiness of regional and international parties to re-engage with Riyadh in an attempt to resolve issues and challenges facing the Middle East.
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Singapore have identified education and health as potential areas of cooperation. “Top Saudi officials will be traveling to Singapore, an island city-state in Southeast Asia, in the near future to explore possibilities to work closely in these sectors,” said Singapore Ambassador Lawrence Anderson, here Saturday.
RIYADH: Saudi businessmen in large numbers will participate in the high-profile international business summit to be held early next year in Gandhinagar, capital of the western Indian state of Gujarat.
RIYADH: The new job evaluation system, recently announced by the Ministry of Civil Services as part of a comprehensive reform plan, is effective from Muharram.
IYADH: Saudi Arabia and Turkey have pledged to boost anti-terror cooperation and work more closely to find solutions to the key regional issues that have tossed the whole Middle East region into turmoil.
RIYADH: A towering figure and accomplished statesman Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman is a visionary, a great philanthropist, and above all an epitome of hope for the Kingdom and the whole Middle East region.
RIYADH: A Riyadh-based woman artist has painted a portrait of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and dedicated it on Thursday to members of the public on the occasion of the 86th National Day.
RIYADH: A cross-section of people, including human rights activists and academics, have welcomed on Tuesday the pronouncements made by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif in his address at the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants in New York.
RIYADH: Foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) slammed Iran’s plots to politicize Haj, and called on Tehran to refrain from meddling in the affairs of the Arab countries.