Environment & Energy | Friday 25 September, 2015 11:00 am

OPEC is winning battle to stimulate gasoline demand

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...

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Healthcare | Friday 25 September, 2015 10:57 am

MoH: No MERS cases among Haj pilgrims

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...

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Business & Money | Friday 25 September, 2015 10:56 am

Millions to benefit from Persian service of Haj TV

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...

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Business & Money | Friday 25 September, 2015 10:31 am

Water plan working, claims NWC

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...

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Technology & IT | Friday 25 September, 2015 10:22 am

Samsung Engineering reaches milestone in Saudi Arabia project

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...

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Government | Thursday 24 September, 2015 3:40 am

Saudis celebrate National Day

 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...

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Business & Money | Thursday 24 September, 2015 3:31 am

100 trained Saudi women assist pilgrims in using Mashaer Train

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...

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Government | Thursday 24 September, 2015 3:28 am

17 bus drivers barred from serving pilgrims

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...

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Business & Money | Thursday 24 September, 2015 3:27 am

12 hours maximum work period for private sector

The Ministry of Labor announced that amendments that have been recently adopted will enter force starting Oct. 8. The amendments emphasize the prohibition of keeping the worker more than 12 working hours in the workplace, and on giving him a break of 30 minutes every five hours to pray, eat and...

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Government | Thursday 24 September, 2015 3:25 am

Civil Defense personnel to use electric scooters in Jamrat

Brig. Gen. Nasser Al-Nahari, Commander of the Civil Defense forces in Jamarat, has revealed that electric scooters will be used by Civil Defense Personnel during the Haj season in order to ensure the fast movement of all Haj pilgrims in the Jamrat area for their safety and security, according to...

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