Sandstorm disrupts life in Riyadh (MENAFN)
Sandstorm disrupts life in Riyadh
Massive difference in sales and rental prices of Riyadh, Jeddah (Zawya)
Sales and rental prices in Riyadh are two to four times that of Jeddah, according to a report. The data collated by Cityscape Intelligence said rental prices for apartments in Riyadh and Jeddah vary immensely.
Between Tehran and Riyadh (The Moscow Times)
Moscow and Riyadh have reportedly been negotiating for several years now about the Saudi purchase of Russian air-defense missile systems, but so far this has not yet occurred.
'Sorcerer' faces Saudi execution (UPI)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 19 (UPI) -- A Lebanese television host sentenced to death by a Saudi Arabian court for alleged "sorcery" should not die, a human rights group says.
Aman ki Nirasha (Outlook India)
Whether one travels ‘cattle class’ or business class from Delhi to Riyadh, one encounters boorish, nouveau riche, first-generation fellow travellers.
11 pardoned OFWs miss flight back to Manila (GMA News)
They were just a minute too late, but 11 pardoned overseas Filipino workers missed their flight back to Manila after languishing in a Riyadh jail in Saudi Arabia for several months.
Forging closer business ties with Saudi Arabia (Business Times (Malaysia))
THE Malaysian-Saudi Arabia Business Council (MSABC) is scheduled to attend a joint council meeting and trade mission to Riyadh and Damman in Saudi Arabia from today to next Tuesday.
Forging closer business ties with Saudi Arabia (Business Times (Malaysia))
THE Malaysian-Saudi Arabia Business Council (MSABC) is scheduled to attend a joint council meeting and trade mission to Riyadh and Damman in Saudi Arabia from today to next Tuesday. In a statement, MSABC said the programme is a joint collaboration between the business council and its counterpart, the Council of Chambers and Industries of Saudi Arabia, with the objective to meet Saudi businessmen ...
France in big culture push to arts-repressed Saudis (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The chorus of Pays-Basques singers which greeted Saudi King Abdullah at a Riyadh fair would have been unremarkable elsewhere, but was a whiff of change for the conservative Muslim kingdom.
France mounts cultural charge in Saudi Arabia (The Daily Star Lebanon)
RIYADH: The chorus of Pays-Basques singers which greeted Saudi King Abdullah at a Riyadh fair would have been unremarkable elsewhere, but was a whiff of change for the conservative Muslim kingdom. In Saudi Arabia, where Islamic clerics severely repress public music, film and other modern arts, it represented the wedge of domestic reformers