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SAMA to keep key rates steady - Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – The Saudi central bank has decided to keep its key interest rates unchanged in March, as inflation pressures remain under control, people familiar with the matter said Sunday. Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) told the Kingdom's banks that ...
GCC to recognize Free Syrian Army - Saudi Gazette
The source, who requested anonymity, added that the GCC leadership has made its position clear on events taking place in Syria. It has also attempted to resolve the crisis several times, including solutions offered by the Arab League to Damascus, ...
Ministry regulation irks recruitment offices - Saudi Gazette
RIYADH – Recruitment offices throughout the Kingdom have complained to the Ministry of Labor about the regulation for recruitment companies, sources said. The regulation mainly serves the large recruitment companies, and creates financial ...
CIB: 6% of public servants remain absent in first 10 days of Ramadan - Saudi Gazette
An official source, who declined to give his name, said this year's absenteeism was two percent less than the same period last year. However, he said the CIB's field teams had noticed a great deal of negligence and laziness at most public agencies over ...
Fake tires could jack up auto premiums - Saudi Gazette
According to the director general and board member of one of the companies, who requested anonymity, the objective is to include disclaimers in insurance policies in “clear and simple language” on the “installation of fake tires by car owners”. ...
Food imports total SR7b annually in Ramadan - Saudi Gazette
Increase in the prices of some commodities is unjustified, the source said. Traders increase the prices despite concerted efforts by inspectors to monitor prices, he said. The Ministry of Trade requires many importers to justify price increases and if ...
Pakistanis shrug off rumors, still hope to receive Saudi aid - Saudi Gazette
On the other hand, an official at Saudi Post, who requested anonymity, said their business was to dispatch letters and “that's exactly what we are doing by accepting and sending the mail in a sealed envelope to one of the princes' office in Riyadh,” he ...
Kingdom to shell out SR10b on water, sewerage projects - Saudi Gazette
... Saudi Arabia will implement water and sewerage projects worth SR10 billion ($2.7 billion) in the Kingdom's two largest cities over the next two years as part of a larger program to upgrade the country's infrastructure, a government official said. ...
Grand Mosque lectures attract all - Saudi Gazette
One of the students who declined to give his name said: “I joined the sessions in the Holy Haram seven months ago. When I listen to the knowledgeable scholars I feel that I am in heaven on earth. They recite and explain verses from the Holy Qur'an to ...
Taibah University drivers on strike - Saudi Gazette
“We were not planning to drop the girls off at their houses, but we could not resist their calls to get home on time,” said one driver, who asked to remain anonymous. The bus company's representative has threatened to sue one driver for provoking his ...
American firm to tackle underground water problem - Saudi Gazette
A source at the mayoralty who declined to give his name said Mayor Dr. Hani Abu Rass will personally oversee all such projects. ...
No legal exceptions in terrorist trials - Saudi Gazette
The sources said that all verdicts are subject to objection and appeal, and that all defendants have access to a lawyer, as stipulated by law. ...
Test of strength for Rajapaksa - Saudi Gazette
asked an irate Colombo housewife, who declined to be named. Most people are reluctant to be quoted by the media for fear of incurring the wrath of the ...
Ministry asks private hospitals for more beds - Saudi Gazette
The son of an elderly patient, who declined to give his name, said his mother had waited 48 hours for a bed at a government hospital. ...
Saudi oil policy still $70 to $80/barrel - Saudi Gazette
“Saudi Arabia still believes that $70 to $80 a barrel is good for consumers and producers,” the senior official, who asked not to be named, said. ...
Wasted drinking water inundates Quwaizah - Saudi Gazette
Okaz/Saudi Gazette telephoned the Reports Department in the NWC's Emergency Section; an employee who declined to give his name said residents in Quwaizah ...
Hai'a needs to change its stereotype image - Saudi Gazette
A woman who declined to give her name, said, “Hai'a staff pulled me and a man, who was giving me a lift to register my daughter in a school, from the man's ...
Turkey to freeze ties with Israel - Saudi Gazette
... on expanding the list of about 100 goods that Israel permits through overland crossings into the Gaza Strip, a senior government official said. ...
Dutch Muslims fearful after far-right poll success - Saudi Gazette
A switchboard operator, she declined to give her name “so as not to have any problems in the neighborhood”. “It is better to stay home at night,” she ...
Census enumerators meet old friends, ward off snakes - Saudi Gazette
In Al-Ahsa, one enumerator, who declined to give his name, said he was greeted with a big smile from a young man in a district, which is notorious for its ...
Horses rented at Jeddah Corniche mistreated, police ask public to help - Saudi Gazette
The Yemeni refused to give his name, but did say that he and his colleagues, who also brought horses to the seaside every day to give rides to children, ...
Junta graft crackdown could delay Niger polls - Saudi Gazette
However, an official close to the justice ministry said all was in place for whatever probe the military had in mind. “The dossiers are there. ...