Saudi Arabia
May 22, 2000
Saudi Arabia has denied charges that a Muslim charity based in the kingdom was financing Chechen fighters, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported Monday.
Saudi hospitals are soon expected to improve their activities, following an agreement signed between the Saudi Seif Development Company and the US Cerner. According to the terms of the agreement, the
May 21, 2000
Saudi Arabia has appointed a seven-member team to conduct talks with foreign firms eying investments in the kingdom's vast energy sector, Saudi Press
May 20, 2000
Saudi Arabia's current economic reforms have generated a good atmosphere for local investments and opened up wider domain to attract foreign investmen
A new gas field has been discovered in the east of Saudi Arabia, which needs the fuel to widen its industrial base, Saudi oil minister Ali al-Nuaimi
May 18, 2000
Saudi transportation authorities plan to impose new tolls on cars using the kingdom's highways. An anonymous source from the Transportation Ministry told al Riyadh daily that studies of this plan have
May 17, 2000
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU) are to meet in Brussels on May 22 for talks aimed at finalizing a long delayed free-tra
The water of the sacred Zamzam well, drunk by all those performing the Hajj pilgrimage, is pure and is not the source of the meningitis which afflicte
The Muhammad Abd al Aziz al Habib and Bros. Real Estate Co. is currently investing SR 300 million ($80 million) in real estate and housing projects in Jeddah. A source in the company told al-Hayat da
May 16, 2000
Oil prices remained high in London trading Tuesday as the world's leading oil producer Saudi Arabia ruled out an output increase at the next OPEC meet
Saudi Prince al-Walid bin Talal said Tuesday he had invested a further one billion dollars in 15 "new and old economies", raising his stake in technol
May 15, 2000
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC est. 1976) announced new agreements with two Thai firms to supply them with 600,000 tonnes of urea per year. The Saudi industrial giant, which is 70% st
May 14, 2000
Saudi Arabia's first skyscraper was due to be officially opened in the capital, Riyadh, on Sunday, reported bbc.online the same day. After decades of
In one of the largest executions in the kingdom in two decades, Saudi Arabia beheaded seven Nigerians Saturday for taking part in a bank heist, accord
May 11, 2000
The "price war crisis" in the Saudi milk market, which has spanned four months, appears to be nearing its end. In their 15th meeting yesterday, the 24 market players reached a two-year agreement reg