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The Italian giant Salini Impregilo group will be building the 6,000 villas-project commissioned by the Saudi powerful National Guard in a deal that has been estimated at $1.3 billion. Salini Impregilo, which boasts a global expertise in construction and civil Read more
Saudi Arabia will invest $64bn in its entertainment sector during the next decade, part of its drive to overhaul the sector in a bid to offer its citizens alternatives to UAE and Bahrain. In a modernization drive ushered by Crown Read more
Saudi women can now launch their own business and benefit from it without any consent from a male guardian, the ministry of commerce has announced as part of the policies to boost the private sector and women’s activities in the Read more
Pakistan has sent troops to Saudi Arabia on a training mission after it refrained to do so in the past years, but the Pakistani military clarifies that the troops will not be deployed in conflict zones outside the kingdom. Riyadh Read more
Board of directors of the kingdom’s shooting federation have picked up Nora Saleh Turki to become deputy President of the federation, making her the first Saudi woman to hold the position ever in history. Her appointment has been made public Read more
Prince al Waleed bin Talal has announced a donation of more than half a million dollar to a local football club two weeks after his release from detention in royal court headed-crackdown on corruption. “Answering my brother Turki al-Sheikh’s invitation Read more
Saudi women interested in a career at the office of the public prosecutor can apply for vacant positions as the kingdom embarks on promoting the role of women in the country’s affairs. The office of the state prosecutor via the Read more
Amid a liberalization drive spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, a top Saudi cleric said that Saudi women should not have to wear the loose-fitting abaya robe to shroud their bodies in public. Speaking on his TV show, Sheikh Read more
A Saudi special criminal court has handed a five-year prison sentence to a prominent journalist arrested in January for accusing the royal court of reinforcing corruption in the kingdom. Saleh Al-Shehi, a columnist for Arabic-language daily Al-Watan, received five years Read more
Saudi officials have strongly denied opening air-space to airlines flying to Israel after reports emerged last week claiming that Air India was allowed to cross Saudi skies on a fly to Tel Aviv. A spokesman for the General Authority for Read more