Monthly Archives: June 2014
Other Side of the Mirror: That flipping phone
By : Bikram Vohra Never be a nice guy. Nice guys don’t find trouble, trouble finds them. You know how some people have that ghastly tonal choice on their mobiles and you wonder what motivates them to opt for it?
Grads face a grim future
By : Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg This is the graduation season and families are celebrating the success of their children. University graduates are basking in the glow of admiration from family and friends as they celebrate getting their diplomas after years
How can SME growth in the Kingdom be unlocked?
By : John Sfakianakis SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) are key to an economy’s growth and account for 60 percent to 70 percent of jobs in most Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, with a particularly large share
Memoirs of a Saudi Ph.D. student: The art of stepping back
By : Htoon Kadi I have always believed that women are excellent at multitasking. It is amazing how they manage to cook, feed a baby, talk on the phone and watch television at the same time with much ease. I
Waiting for our team to win World Cup
By : Saad Dossari Within a few days, most of the people across the world will be gathering around their television sets to watch 32 nations competing for the World Cup on the playgrounds of Brazil. Depending on one’s perspective,
Uncalled-for rules will not help us progress
By : Sabria S. Jawhar The Labor Ministry has decided it’s more important to protect women from the mysteries of interacting with men than with trifling things like employee rights. In its wisdom that signals that it’s still 1979, the
What we can learn from Finland?
By : Abdulateef Al-Mulhim Until the 1970s, Finland had one of the most bureaucratic and centralized education systems in Europe. It was not because the Finnish people or the government lacked the will or desire for a better education system
MoH reports 5 new cases of MERS
Makkah police gear up for holy month
Sovereign fund to manage growing budget surplus
Recruitment applications to be submitted online
Ramadan grocery price hike irks Jeddawis
Shoppers in Jeddah are concerned about the rising prices of commodities, particularly food items ahead of the holy month of Ramadan and criticized the annual pre-Ramadan phenomenon of price hikes. They complained about the nearly 40 percent increase in prices
King Khalid Medical City to be ready in 2018
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Arifi, the Executive Director of Clinical and Medical Affairs at King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Dammam, said that work on establishing the King Khalid Medical City will begin at the end of 2014. Al-Arifi said that Saudi Aramco
Water minister signs contracts worth SR616m
Water and Electricity Minister Abdullah Al-Hussein signed 20 water and sewerage projects worth SR616 million in various provinces recently. The first contract for taking potable water to Al-Kharj in Riyadh province is worth SR479 million while the SR 36 million
Janitor jailed for forging degree
The Jeddah Administrative Court has fined an Asian woman janitor SR1,000 and sentenced her to one year in prison to be followed by deportation on charges of forgery, local media reported. The court earlier convicted her of forging a bachelor’s
10 backers of Brotherhood handed death
CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced 10 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death in absentia on Saturday, but postponed sentencing of the movement’s leader and other senior members on trial in the same case, judicial sources said. Those sentenced
64,478 traffic offenses during exams
The Riyadh Traffic Department reported 64,478 cases of traffic offenses during exams in Riyadh, local media said. The traffic offenses included irregular parking 13,116 cases, window tinting (11,446), breaking traffic signals (10,135), use of mobile phones (9,617), over-speeding (8,776), driving
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