RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is working to integrate its fast-track immigration services at airports, which will enable Gulf nationals to clear entry and exit points across the six Gulf states using their national ID cards.
Several witnesses including the driver of the fuel tanker, which crashed into an overpass on a busy road in the Saudi capital on Thursday, killing 22 persons and injuring 133 instantaneously, is being questioned by the Riyadh police.
Several witnesses including the driver of the fuel tanker, which crashed into an overpass on a busy road in the Saudi capital on Thursday, killing 22 persons and injuring 133 instantaneously, is being questioned by the Riyadh police.
DHL Express, a leading logistics and express mail services company, has announced an ambitious plan to invest more than $20 million in Saudi Arabia to better tap into the country’s growing demand for logistics and mail services.
A delegation of top Saudi officials and businessmen will participate in the Arab-South American Summit in Peru on Monday and Tuesday to widen political, commercial and cultural links.
The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), a state-owned organization set up by the Kingdom with a mandate to provide financial assistance and to stimulate economic growth in poor countries, has disbursed SR 37 billion in aid and loans so far. This does not include a number of soft loans and term financing for various projects especially in Africa and Asia including an SR300 million loan facility to finance the irrigation projects in Egypt.
A top official of the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday warned that more young people are dying of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the Eastern Mediterranean region than in any other region across the world.
RIYADH: Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Prince Salman held talks in Jeddah yesterday with Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindawa. The talks focused on a range of bilateral and regional issues, the volatile situation in Yemen and the outcome of the recent two-day international donors’ conference.
RIYADH: Saudi security forces have arrested a wanted man following a gunfight in Awamiya in the Eastern Province town of Qatif on Sunday.
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and all other member states of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are on course to become the latest to require the use of graphic warning labels on every cigarette packet brought into their territories.