Saudi Arabia
May 20, 2012
16:54 GMT
Saudi Arabia is seeing an awakening in the acting arena, as a young actress who goes by Lamar shines the spotlight on film in the Kingdom.
13:17 GMT
Saudi Arabian shares dropped nearly 2 per cent to a three-month low, weighed by declines in the heavyweight banking and petrochemical sectors.
12:00 GMT
The Labor Ministry is currently working on a plan to hire as many as 28,000 Saudi job seekers to replace foreigners who dominate the Kingdom’s limousine sector.
May 16, 2012
13:43 GMT
Iran raised its voice on Wednesday against a proposed union between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, calling on Iranians to rally against what Tehran sees as an attempt by Riyadh to "annex" a territory formerly belonged to Iran.
12:03 GMT
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday launched a tender process to build a new metro system in the capital of Riyadh in an effort to ease congestion on the city's gridlocked roads.
May 15, 2012
14:36 GMT
Gulf Arab countries will continue discussions on a possible union of six nations but any such plan will take time, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said on Monday.
12:25 GMT
KSA has revised up its estimates for the amount it will invest in power projects over the next decade to more than SR400 billion.
11:52 GMT
Oman records 17 per cent increase in Saudi passenger arrivals in 2011.
May 14, 2012
23:28 GMT
Saudi singer, Rashed Al Majed, has released a new single called “Allah Alaik" (figurative for 'Look at you!').
13:35 GMT
Deputy Labor Minister for Planning and Development Abdullah Al-Haqabani opened yesterday the 3rd Saudi Job Fair organized by the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI).
May 13, 2012
13:09 GMT
Inflationary pressures are likely to continue in Saudi Arabia in the second-quarter, the central bank said in a report published on its website.
May 12, 2012
21:34 GMT
The fifth episode of Arabs Got Talent (AGT) was the penultimate of the recorded auditions to qualify for the live semi finals. It was marked by a good deal of talent and was not short on comedic elements to lighten the intensity of the competition either.
May 10, 2012
10:21 GMT
Nasser Al Qasabi is one of the most popular comedians in the Arab game. With his keen sense of humor he is able to make a great co-judge on the show "Arabs Got Talent". Here, he reveals some of what's behind the public persona.
10:05 GMT
Long queues of lorries at the border between the UAE and Saudi Arabia may be a thing of the past when the two countries link their customs clearing systems later this year.
May 7, 2012
09:27 GMT
The Ministry of Labor launched yesterday the second phase of a campaign designed to raise the number of Saudi employees in private firms.
08:08 GMT
Saudi Arabia is fast spreading its global reach.
May 6, 2012
14:21 GMT
The Saudi Foreign Ministry on Sunday urged Saudi citizens to avoid traveling to Syria to those who were there to leave the country, reported the official SPA news agency.
12:47 GMT
Saudi Arabia's bourse ended at a three-week low as petrochemical and banking shares weighed following a drop in oil prices and global stocks.
10:14 GMT
Saudi Arabia's tourism sector will provide 1.6 million jobs by 2015.
May 5, 2012
14:49 GMT
This slideshow in pictures, highlights some 11 prominent cases of Muslims and non-Muslims causing offense to Islam. In conclusion, however, maybe those of the Muslim world still feel most strongly about those 'outsiders' as Terry Jones who burn Qurans or the Danish cartoonist. In (dis) honor of Pastor Terry's recent repeat offense against Islam and Muslims, we think back to all the crimes against Islam that have caused or started a Muslim fire of outrage.
May 4, 2012
13:15 GMT
The Arab variety show that is Arabs Got Talent is finding its stride by the 4th episode, gearing up for the 5th which promises yet more surprise factor if the second season's drama is anything to go by.
May 1, 2012
23:23 GMT
Actor Ahmed Helmy and HRH Saudi Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majed Bin Abdul Aziz have struck a business pact centered around a Saudi mall.
15:27 GMT
A legacy sheathed in clouds, not dispersed a year later: A year after the killing of Osama bin Laden, some feel that the man's mysterious ways live on after his death.
13:25 GMT
Two Saudi dailies reported Tuesday that the Egyptian security services had foiled three months ago an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Cairo.
April 29, 2012
13:36 GMT
Saudi Arabia has decided to recall its ambassador to Egypt and to close its embassy in Cairo and its consulates in Alexandria and Suez.
12:35 GMT
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah will lay the foundation for the second phase of the university cities' project worth SR81.5 billion ($21.73 billion) tomorrow.
April 27, 2012
14:01 GMT
Suicide has become a troubling phenomenon in Saudi Arabia, particularly among young people. Is this due to societal or economical root causes?
April 25, 2012
19:38 GMT
The Saudi female writer Badriya Al Bashar plays down the rumors that her marriage has been strained by Arabs Got Talent.
18:16 GMT
From Jordan, through Morocco, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, here are some of the highlights of last week's 3rd episode of Arabs Got Talent. From the judges side though, while mildly entertaining, it's more a case of "Still haven't found what I'm looking for."
April 23, 2012
06:26 GMT
Abdulrahman El-Khreiji's son's death is a blow to celebrity father and the Kingdom.
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