Saudi Arabia
January 21, 2013
Saudi Arabia yesterday announced a contribution of $ 1.88 million toward UNHCR’s humanitarian program in Myanmar providing shelter to Rohingyas in Rakhine state.
Financial aid to Egypt from Arab nations has topped $9 billion, mainly from oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
January 20, 2013
Saudi Arabia’s inflation this year is expected to reach 4.3 percent year-on-year down from 4.5 percent in 2012, say economic analysts.
January 17, 2013
Saudi Arabia will send the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority $100 million to help alleviate its financial crisis, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Turkey is sending increasing numbers fo workers abroad to for employment, with the Middle East gaining the lion's share.
January 16, 2013
The World Bank has predicted Egypt's economy will grow by 2.6 per cent in the fiscal year 2012/13, a significantly lower figure than estimated by the Egyptian government.
January 15, 2013
Saudi Arabia plans to build more than 12,400 housing units across the country, according to reports from the English-language Arab News.
January 14, 2013
Arab countries should boost intraregional trade, investments and push for deeper economic integration, said head of the Lebanese Economic Committee Adnan Kassar over the weekend.
King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, of Saudi Arabia, has ordered 500 tons of wheat to be sent to Syrian refugees in Zaatari camp in Jordan, Al Arabiya TV reported Sunday.
The value of Saudi non-oil commodities’ exports in the trading month of November in 2012 declined by $210,000,000.
January 13, 2013
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have pledged some $15 million in emergency assistance to help Syrian refugees in Jordan face one of the country’s harshest winters in recent history.
January 12, 2013
Saudi King, Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, has appointed 30 women to the previously all-male Shura council.
January 10, 2013
After rumors spread that the legendary Saudi crooner has proposed to starlet, Mariam Hussein and been ditched for a Qatari millionaire, Mohammad Abdo answers back.
A Sri Lankan maid convicted of murdering her employer's baby was beheaded in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday despite calls for suspending the court's judgement.
January 8, 2013
The legendary Saudi crooner is left high and dry after the young Emirati starlet turns down his marriage proposal in favor of a billionaire.