RIYADH: Arab News, a major publication of Saudi Research & Publishing Company (SRPC), will be the title sponsor for an ‘Inter-School Cricket Tournament 2009’, scheduled to be organized during this season in Riyadh. Khaled Almaeena, Arab News Editor-in-chief, who met with the senior RCA office bearers in his office and signed a sponsorship agreement here yesterday, announced this
RIYADH: Vocational training in the Kingdom is poised to take off in a big way, especially for girls who will now have access to specialized training in different vocations. The Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) has launched an ambitious project to set up 39 training institutes exclusively for girls by 2014. The new institutes will have a cumulative enrollment of some 120,000 students on different technical and vocational courses at any given time
RIYADH: The Kingdom will host an emergency meeting of Arab health ministers here on Tuesday to discuss how to send urgent medical assistance to thousands of Palestinians who have been wounded and rendered homeless in the continuing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. The ministers will also address the health crisis, especially among women and children who are dying in the poorly equipped and understaffed hospitals of the war-torn region.
RIYADH: On the orders of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia is sending several planeloads of relief supplies to Palestinians. “At least six planeloads of relief materials will be sent for the injured Palestinian patients within a week from now,” Khaled Al-Mirghalani, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health, said yesterday.
PANEL of doctors has declared Capt. Hanadi Zakaria Al-Hindi once again ready for takeoff. The first Saudi woman pilot is fit to go back to her work following a number of abdominal surgeries at different British and Saudi hospitals recently.
RIYADH: A record number of voters were reported on the first day of a two-day poll to elect 12 members of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (RCCI) board of directors yesterday.
RIYADH: Prince Sultan bin Salman, secretary general of the General Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (GCTA), has called on local travel and tourism organizations to offer employment to Saudi men and women alike, since the hospitality sector has been opened by the government for women employment. Prince Sultan made this call at the opening ceremony of the new ‘Novotel Riyadh Al-Anoud Hotel’ here Monday night.
RIYADH: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday called on Saudi Arabia and other GCC states to help stabilize the world economy by lending financial support. Brown made the call following talks with Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah here last night.
RIYADH: The body of an Indian worker has been lying in the morgue of a local hospital for 59 days because his wife refused to give her consent for a local burial, which is a legal requirement in Saudi Arabia.
RIYADH: Babar Ali Malik, 33, from the Pakistani city of Lahore and Iffat Shaheen, 28, from Sargodha, had planned a grand wedding. However, their plans fell flat with Babar’s inability to travel to Pakistan from Riyadh at the eleventh hour because of some problems. But that did not deter the couple. They kept their date with destiny and married here Friday night. All they did was remove the frills and went ahead with what can be called an “e-nikah”