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Saudi-News-2013-01-02
The Saudi stock market’s turnover showed impressive growth last year, which highlights growing investor interest in the bourse, say top economists.TASI closed 0.9 percent higher yesterday after oil prices edged up on Monday and the US Senate passed a deal to avert a ‘fiscal cliff’. The …
With the entry of new airlines, a tough competition is expected in Saudi Arabian domestic and international flight operations.Qatar Airways and Gulf Air and its associates have been selected as the new airline companies to operate domestic and international services to and from Saudi Arabia. …
Members of the Shoura Council in its upcoming cycle will be announced in two weeks, al-Riyadh daily reported late Tuesday. The council will include women for the first time. Mohammed Al Naji, head of the administration and human resources committee, told the newspaper that the addition of women …
The first major workshop for female Google developers was recently organized in Dhahran at the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry under the patronage of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. Many female participants who are interested in technology, programming, and …
The discussion of former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s possible nomination for secretary of defense continues to swirl. I recently joined with eight other senior former Foreign Service colleagues in an open letter expressing our unqualified support for the idea and for Mr. Hagel as a person of integrity, …
President Obama’s 2009 surge strategy for what he and Democrats liked to portray as the “good war” in Afghanistan was premised upon the assumption that the US could quickly build up and train large Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), including army and police forces. Obama and the …
In Iran, the controversial two-term presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is coming to an end and it is far from clear who may succeed him. It can be assumed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader and an anti-western, conservative hardliner, will try to pick his own man for the job. But …
Kurdistan in northern Iraq — an autonomous region that retains a considerable amount of political freedom from Baghdad — is by far the safest and most accessible area of Iraq to visit. Unlike the rest of Iraq, tourists can wander bazaars freely. Hotels — and homes and businesses — don’t …
Over-zealous teachers in London have recently been pulling Syrian Orthodox refugees out of school assemblies in London, on the basis that Arab children must by definition be Muslims. The truth, of course, is that Christianity is an import from the Middle East, not an export to it. Christians …
Seven charity workers, six of them women, have been shot dead in north-west Pakistan, police say. The women, some of them teachers, were attacked near a children’s community centre. A male colleague died with them. All were Pakistani citizens. Their vehicle came under gunfire near the …
There are 5.8 million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and Israel, and “the number of Palestinians in historical Palestine will total 7.2 million compared to 6.9 Jews by the end of 2020,” the Palestinian report proclaims.That may be an overly rosy prediction — other …
Saudi Arabia will develop its Midyan natural gas field in the Red Sea in 2013, Oil Minister Ali Naimi said in comments reported on Tuesday in local media. ‘The Midyan field will be developed in 2013 and it would start production within a short period. It would boost electric power plants run …
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