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LuLu holds ‘Saudi Dates Week‘ in all its stores
Business & Money | Sunday 29 December, 2019 3:46 am
LuLu, the region’s top retailer, unveiled its Saudi Dates Week across its stores in the Kingdom, which highlights a wide range of locally grown dates and food products made from the well-known tropical fruit. The promotional week was inaugurated by Dr. Muhammed Al Nowiran, CEO of National...
General Authority for Military Industries signs first industrial participation agreement with Raytheon Saudi Arabia
Business & Money | Sunday 29 December, 2019 2:46 am
The General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) announces the signing of its first Industrial Participation Agreement (IPA) with Raytheon Saudi Arabia to localize a Patriot Deep Maintenance and Refurbishment (DMR) System contract for the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces.     The...
The Royal Commission For Alula Unveils Maraya:  A World Class Mirrored Concert Hall
Culture & Education | Sunday 29 December, 2019 1:51 am
The newly constructed Maraya concert hall in AlUla in Saudi Arabia has been unveiled as part of the Winter at Tantora festival.  ‘Maraya’, which in Arabic means reflection or mirror, is built close to Hegra Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO world heritage site.  The...
Azizi Developments sponsors HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Endurance Festival
Business & Money | Sunday 29 December, 2019 1:49 am
As part of its long-standing pillar partnership with Meydan, Azizi Developments, one of the leading private developers in the UAE, sponsored the HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Festival Ride for Ladies for a third year running.  A prestigious stop on the world endurance riding ...
Ad-Diriyah Glows in the International Contemporary Art Scene
Culture & Education | Sunday 29 December, 2019 1:38 am
From Within art exhibition, organised by Ministry of Culture, took place from 8 to 26 December, and hosted 25 artists from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and internationally. The artworks at the exhibition are results of profound concepts and raise...
Fawaz Alhokair moves to AWS to accelerate digital transformation
Business & Money | Sunday 29 December, 2019 1:12 am
Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair & Co., one of the largest franchise retailers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, MENA, Central Asia and Caucasus regions, announced that it is moving the vast majority of its technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to empower the company with the most...
Kaspersky announces winners of its annual Secur’IT Cup student competition
Technology & IT | Sunday 29 December, 2019 12:42 am
Kaspersky has announced the winners of its international competition for students – Secur’IT Cup 2019. A team of students from the Russian National Research Nuclear University MEPhI was named at the final event, which took place at the Kaspersky Academy Partner’s Summit in Lisbon. ...
200 Saudi women employed in Jeddah Airport client services
Tourism & Hospitality | Saturday 28 December, 2019 1:48 pm
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) ground services have employed 200 Saudi young women in client services at King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) in Jeddah. Before employing them, the Saudi women underwent specialist training to provide them with experience and know-how to render the best...
Asian countries top list of pilgrims to Makkah
Tourism & Hospitality | Saturday 28 December, 2019 1:00 pm
2,371,441 Umrah visas were issued between Aug. 31 and Dec. 20, 2019. These numbers are based on the weekly Umrah Index. It measures the number of Umrah visas issued, the total number of Umrah pilgrims arriving to the Kingdom through air, land and sea ports, nationalities of Umrah performers, and...
Saudi Arabia’s Hail Season inaugurate by region’s governor
Tourism & Hospitality | Saturday 28 December, 2019 12:25 pm
Prince Abdul Aziz bin Saad Al-Saud, governor of Hail, inaugurated Hail Season 2019 at Al-Qishla Heritage Palace on Friday. In his speech for the occasion, Prince Abdul Aziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, chairman of the board of directors of the General Sports Authority (GSA), said: “During Hail...
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