The Ministry of Commerce, in cooperation with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), is launching a campaign to enforce a rule stipulating that retailers, including supermarkets and groceries, keep small denomination coins and to give them to shoppers as leftover change.
The state-owned Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) has signed an agreement with the Tanzanian government to support a major drinking water supply project in the East African country, according to Arab News.
Senior officials of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met here yesterday to coordinate sanctions against Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement over its support for the Syria regime.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced July 8 (Shaban 29) as the last date for seeking Umrah visas. All Saudi diplomatic missions across the world will continue issuing Umrah visas until the “end of Shaban,” said Osama Nugali, a spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, here.
A labor official working at the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh has been recalled by Manila to face an inquiry for alleged sexual exploitation of distressed Filipino women workers.
Riyadh police yesterday arrested two men who opened fire at Romansiya Restaurant in Al-Suwaidi district on Monday.
Saudi Internet users topped the list of those who share their public and private lives online, according to a US report on the Internet and computing trends.
Businessman and philanthropist Prince Bandar Bin Saud Bin Khalid M. Al-Saud, who has been extensively involved in a number of charity projects and organizations including King Faisal Foundation (KFF), was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at this year’s Arabian Business Saudi Achievement Awards.
The Shoura Council has accepted a petition that calls for holding fresh discussions on the issue of women driving in a historic move that may eventually facilitate the mobility of women. The petition, signed by 3,000 Saudi citizens including academics, scholars, writers, as well as young Saudi boys and girls, calls for the ban on women driving to be lifted.
The Riyadh-based King Saud University (KSU) in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior embarked on an ambitious rehabilitation program for prisoners and ex-offenders here yesterday.