Jeddah - 10 May 2011: Saudi Arabia announced Sunday new plans to intensify the Saudization of jobs in private companies as part of efforts to reduce the unemployment rate. According to official statistics, there are more than 448,000 Saudi job seekers, including women, in a country with eight millio

Dubai, May 9,2011 (Gulf News): Airlines in the UAE are slashing their ticket prices as residents get ready for the summer holidays.Emirates airline has removed the fuel surcharge on all tickets with immediate effect, the company said in a statement yesterday.Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways also anno

JEDDAH, May 8,2011 (AFP) - Saudi authorities have rejected claims that holy Zamzam water from a spring inside the Grand Mosque complex of Mecca is polluted and stressed there were no health risks.The Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques Affairs said in a statement Saturday it had no reports suggesting

Dubai - 29 April 2011: Starting Sunday, bank customers cannot obtain car and personal loans exceeding 20 times their monthly salary and only those with an annual salary of Dh60,000 or more will be considered for a credit card following the new Central Bank regulations meant to protect customers from

Dubai/Abu Dhabi, 2, April 2011 :One person was killed and 60 others were injured in a road crash involving 127 vehicles on Shaikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum Highway from Abu Dhabi to Dubai on Saturday.According to the Abu Dhabi Police and eye-witnesses, the collision happened at around 8am on Sat

29 March 2011At 7am, the Khan children get ready for school. But they don't have to change in to their uniform or take the school bus. They are attending classes at home with mom as the teacher.All four children are getting home-schooled. Aaishah (16) and Aaminah (14) are in high school and pretty m

RIYADH, Published: Mar 18, 2011: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah announced the setting up of a national anti-graft body, while providing relief to government employees with a slew of orders.In his national address on Friday he issued 18 Royal Decrees that included the setting up of a

Riyadh, 18 March 2011 (Reuters) : AM Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah will address the nation on Friday to issue a number of decrees, the Royal Court said in a statement released by the state news agency.The speech by the King Abdullah would be the first since returning to the Kingdom nearly a month a

MANAMA, BAHRAIN, March 15, 2011 (AP): Bahrain state TV says a three-month state of emergency has been declared to try to quell political unrest threatening the monarchy.The statement from Bahrain's king says that the nation's armed forces chief is authorised to take all measures to stamp out protest

By : AFTAB H. KOLA The mystical Muttrah Souk, Muscat's oldest market takes us back in time with its stunning treasures. During the first half of 2010, 76 cruise ships called at Port Sultan Qaboos in Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman. The first destination for most tourists, after disemba

Arab News Editorial | March 9, 2011It is perfectly legitimate for one government to tell another about its political principles. It is wholly acceptable for it to express the hope that those principles be embraced. But to go beyond that - to demand that its principles be accepted - is an outrageous

Embassy of India Muscat - Press releaseIndian Embassy in Muscat has informed all concerned on 22nd February that the Election Commission of India notification of the Elections in the States of Kerala, Tamilnadu, Puducherry, Assam and West Bengal and related forms will be posted on the website of Ind

Abu Dhabi, Mar 10,2011 (GN): The Emirates Identity Authority (Eida) has fixed a five-year validity for Emiratis' national ID card because of the five-year life span of the electronic chip in the card, the authority said Wednesday in a statement.The life span of the electronic chip in the national ID

By: Muaz Shabandri , KhaleejtimesDUBAI,8 March 2011: Bridging the cultural divide between religion and day-to-day affairs, the centres of Islamic education in the country are creating a new wave of religious experts.Fighting stereotypes with modern-day education to become moderate thinkers and schol

Dubai, 5 Mar,2011 (GN): All trains will run the full length of the 53 kilometre-long Red Line of the Dubai Metro with the opening of the Jebel Ali Station on Friday.The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) on Saturday announced the opening of the much-awaited Jebel Ali Station on the Red Line c

RIYADH, 5 March 2011 (AFP) : Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said on Saturday that protests were illegal, amid various calls for demonstrations demanding changes in the kingdom, state media said."Regulations in the kingdom forbid categorically all sorts of demonstrations, marches and sit-ins... as

Federal Traffic and Licensing System to be linked to the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority in order to allow renewal of vehicle registration and driving licences across the country. Abu Dhabi, Mar 3,2011 (GN): Drivers with vehicle registrations and licences issued from Dubai will be able to renew

Basic commodities will be lowered by around 40%Abu Dhabi, Mar 2,2011 (GN): Amid concerns over rising global commodity prices, the UAE Ministry of Economy will step in to lower the prices of essential foodstuffs for a month with prices being reduced by up to 40 per cent, a ministry official said Tues