Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has ordered a review of the Kingdom’s Haj plans and entire procedures for the annual pilgrimage of Haj following the stampede in Mina.
The King also directed the agencies concerned to carry out a prompt investigation into circumstances...
Stocks around the world fell for a fifth day on Thursday, sliding toward two-year lows, as worries lingered over global growth and as the scandal over Volkswagen’s emissions test-cheating rattled Europe’s carmakers.
Government bonds prices rose on safety bids, while the dollar fell...
OPEC’s bid to curb production of high-cost oil is taking time to produce results but the organization is already making good progress on its other objective of stimulating fuel demand.
In the first half of the year, gasoline deliveries into US local markets jumped by 4.3 percent compared...
The current number of Coronavirus patients is 20 percent less than in the same period last year, with just 417 cases in comparison to 547 at this time in 2014, according to statistics from the Command and Control Center of the Ministry of Health.
This news comes as the Minister of Health...
Minister of Culture and Information Adel Al-Toraifi recently launched the Haj TV and Radio Channel ‘1436’ for speakers of the Persian language to broadcast the Haj rituals and movement of pilgrims at the holy sites in Makkah and Madinah.
The minister stressed the fact that...
The National Water Company (NWC) said it has no record of any water shortages in the holy sites during Haj. The NWC’s head of operations in Makkah and Taif, Abdullah Bin Ahmad, said that new laboratory vehicles were deployed in holy sites to test water in tanks and in the water network to...
SAMSUNG Engineering Co., Ltd, revealed that it has reached a major milestone is terms of safety with Aramco’s Shaybah project. Samsung achieved the new record of 120 million man hours without lost time incident with the Shaybah Gas and Oil Project in the Shaybah region, Saudi Arabia.
This...
A National Day is always very important for the people of a country and Saudis also celebrated their National Day with pride, although this year it came in the middle of an important religious duty — the Haj.
“We are very proud to be Saudi and happy that Allah gave us this...
About 100 trained Saudi women have joined hands with 1,500 of their male counterparts in organizing transportation of 370,000 pilgrims by Al-Mashaer Train that links the holy sites of Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah. Pilgrims from Southeast Asia, Turkey, Europe and GCC countries as well as domestic...
Undersecretary to the Ministry of Health for laboratories and blood banks Dr. Ibrahim Al-Omar revealed that 17 bus drivers were removed from pilgrim transport operations after their medical tests showed positive signs of taking banned substances.
The Health Ministry, with the participation...