The Saudi British Bank (SABB) recently held three seminars in Riyadh, Jeddah and Al-Khobar titled "Corporate Islamic Banking Solutions" organized by the bank's Commercial Banking Services Department and were well-attended by a large group of SABB 's (...)
Saudi Telecom Co. ( STC ) introduced a recycling program, considered to be the first-of-its- kind in the Kingdom, that allows customers and non-customers alike, to exchange their old mobile phones, whether functional or damaged, and to replace them (...)
A court in Khobar Governorate in eastern Saudi Arabia will hear the case against two people who allegedly helped a Saudi woman convert to Christianity. The defendants are a Saudi citizen and a Lebanese national.
Proselytizing by non-Muslims is (...)
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia women on Friday reportedly braved the feared religious police and laws barring them from getting behind the wheel and took to the streets in a protest against the Kingdom's restrictions on women.
Aziza al-Yousef told Business (...)
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia women activists are continuing their now more than one year push for the right to drive in the ultra-conservative Gulf Kingdom. On Tuesday, leading activist Manal al-Sharif told reporters that they were organizing a “behind the (...)
The contemporary Saudi-led counterrevolution, fierce as it has been throughout the Arab world, is perhaps most relentless inside the Kingdom's own borders. US-trained and armed security forces have been dispatched more thoroughly throughout the (...)
DUBAI/KHOBAR: Saudi Arabia is likely to burn less crude in its power plants this summer thanks to rising output from dedicated gas fields and gas that would be associated with any increase in oil output to make up for lower Iranian (...)
Saudi Arabian shares rose for an 11th day, the longest winning streak since August 2005, after global stocks advanced as manufacturing and jobs data in China and the U.S. boosted the world's economic outlook.The Tadawul All Share Index (SASEIDX) (...)
DUBAI: A Saudi Arabia woman who pressed the government last year after she drove a vehicle in the country has filed a lawsuit against the government for refusing her a driver's license.
Manal al-Sharif, the mastermind behind the Women 2 Drive (...)
DUBAI: Saudi security forces killed a young protester and wounded three in the kingdom's oil-producing Eastern Province, home to a large Shia Muslim minority, websites and activists said on Friday.
Saudi Arabia, the world's No. 1 oil exporter, is (...)
“Bring your passport, we are going to the cinema” was the logline of “Cinema 500 km” (2006), a Saudi documentary film directed by Abdullah Al-Eyaf. To bring your passport go to the cinema seems like an unlike adventure everywhere in the world, that (...)
KHOBAR: State oil giant Saudi Aramco will sign a final deal next week to build a new 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) oil refinery in Yanbu with China's Sinopec Group, the company said on Sunday.
Aramco said the formal signing would take place on (...)
KHOBAR: State oil giant Saudi Aramco plans to raise the number of drilling rigs it operates to pre-crisis levels of at least 130 by the second quarter of 2012 as it strives to maintain production capacity levels, industry sources said.
Aramco had (...)
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a woman sentence to 10 lashes for driving in the conservative Gulf kingdom. It came one day after international outrage was sparked by reports the woman would be flogged for driving.
On Tuesday, a (...)
The sentencing of a Saudi Arabian woman to 10 lashes after she drove a car demonstrates the scale of discrimination against women in the Kingdom, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
“Flogging is a cruel punishment in all circumstances but it (...)
International human rights organization Amnesty International has condemned the Saudi Arabia government after it sentenced a woman to flogging after she drove in the country.
“The sentencing of a Saudi Arabian woman to 10 lashes after she drove a (...)
LONDON: Saudi Arabia may not have been directly implicated in the conspiracy that killed more than 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, but it has been consumed in a conspiracy of silence ever since. The Kingdom remains in sullen denial of the fact (...)
The exact character of Egyptian-Libyan relations during the current transitional phase which both countries are experiencing is unpredictable, according to an increasing number of observers. The most important feature, it seems, is the number of (...)
Saudi Arabian authorities must stop treating women as second-class citizens and open the Kingdom's roads to women drivers, Amnesty International said on Thursday, as a group of Saudi Arabian women prepared to defy a decades-old ban on women (...)
Mohammed Algosaibi often turns the palms of his hands up as he talks, as if asking for understanding.
He is trying to explain one of the biggest, yet least reported failures of the financial crisis. This has split his family, one of Saudi (...)
Fed up with constantly having to rely on husbands, fathers or brothers to drive them around, women in Saudi Arabia are once again pushing for the right to drive, writes Rashid Abul-Samh
The arrest of the young, divorced mother of one, Manal (...)
Rasha Saad tries to predict when Saudi women will start driving
The right of Saudi women to drive in their country was the focus of the pundits who believe it is a matter of time before women in the kingdom will be allowed to drive. Though the (...)
Saudi authorities have dealt firmly with a woman activist who defied a ban on women driving in the kingdom, fearing that this could be the spark for wider demands for reform, writes Khaled Dawoud
Bowing to local and international pressure, Saudi (...)
Gamal Nkrumah muses on how the leaders of Libya, Syria and Yemen will go down fighting, taking thousands of compatriots with them
The wonders worked by womanhood and femininity were the focus of the Saudi daily Okaz. Other Arab papers were obsessed (...)
Winds of change blowing across the region have encouraged women of the most conservative societies in the Arab world to claim a right they have been long deprived of. According to social traditions in Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed to drive, as (...)