Riyadh-based King Saud University (KSU) has established a Water Desalination Research Chair funded by UNESCO. The chair’s aim is to evaluate and study the water desalination program comprehensively and recommend the necessary technology required by the Kingdom to ensure the cost-efficient production and supply of desalinated water in the future.
The drive toward e-governance for Saudi Arabia, which is now benefiting both public and private sectors alike, received a major boost from the Saudi government after the e-government program “Yesser” launched its second edition of the Saudi e-Government Achievement Award (Enjaz). The award will serve as a major tool to encourage, inspire and value government agencies’ efforts for advancing e-government services in the Kingdom.
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has emerged as “a strong alliance capable of facing all kinds of internal or external challenges,” GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif Al-Zayani said this week.
Alauddin Alaskary, deputy foreign minister for protocol affairs, has denied media reports the Saudi Embassy in Yemen was closed and subsequently reopened. He said the Kingdom only closed down its consulate in the Yemeni port city of Aden and its consular section in Sanaa following the abduction of Saudi diplomat Abdullah Al-Khaldi on March 28 this year.
King Saud University (KSU) has taken the lead in the Kingdom in treating obesity, which kills around 20,000 people every year. KSU’s obesity chair, which treated about 900 cases in one year, has a world-class team of experts and used the revolutionary laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) surgical procedure to help people with the condition.
The Saudi government has undertaken SR 20 billion worth of water projects as part of its ambitious plan to ensure a sustainable future water supply in different regions of the Kingdom.
A special plane carrying foreign diplomats will take off from the royal terminal of Riyadh’s King Khaled International Airport for Jeddah today to allow them to offer in person their condolences on the death of Crown Prince Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior.
A book of condolence for diplomats will be opened at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs following the death of Crown Prince Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, said Alauddin A. Alaskary, deputy minister for protocol affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, here yesterday.
Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to promote the use of Arabic language among expatriates in a bid to spread Arab culture. “The plan is to interact with students of different nationalities currently enrolled in various foreign schools of the Kingdom,” said Gumaan S. Alkahtani, general manager of the Riyadh-based Arab Institute for Arabic Language (ARABI), here yesterday.
As part of an ambitious plan to ensure food security, the Kingdom has intensified efforts to modernize its fishery sector with an aim to promote the sustainable productivity of local fish stocks.