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

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

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

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,

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

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

By : Mohammed Al-Ihaidib Studies say that based on our current university input, we need at least 140 years to fulfill our needs for Saudi male and female pharmacists. Other studies, which are less optimistic, say we need about 500

By : M. J. AKBAR A shadow war does not begin with an ultimatum. It is conducted by militias, not a military. It is not fought in the name of a nation or under conventions signed at Geneva; it uses

By: Khaled Al-Maeena There was a report in the local press about the suspension of a security guard found standing in an inappropriate manner at the Holy Kaaba. The picture taken by a visitor went viral on social media. Many

By : Alsir Sidahmed Qatari officials felt greatly dismayed when they discovered that, unlike their fellows in other Gulf countries, their emirate has more gas resources than crude oil. That was in the 1970s when oil was in the limelight

By : Uri Avnery How does a football club choose its team? The simple way is the usual one: Each side has a manager, who chooses his team. No problem. Now the Israeli government has hit on a new way:

By : Shahzad Chaudhry Two glass ceilings got broken in the first two decades of this century: A black man’s son became the president of the United States — the oldest democracy in the world and a tea boy’s son

By : Abdel Aziz AlUwaisheg On May 20, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry published the results of its survey of consumer satisfaction with car agencies services. Last week, it publicly disclosed the name of one car agency that

By : Bikram Vohra OK, so it is vacation time and you are enjoying going through the brochures all splashed with color and great deals but watch it, it is fraught with dangers. Half these scenarios will happen to you

By : Bikram Vohra Who gave these people the permission to be the conscience of the nation? Just because some idiot morphed pictures of RSS leader Bal Thackeray on the Net you cannot turn into cold blooded killers and justify