Riyadh: As pilgrims started arriving from all over the world for the annual Haj which is due in the first week of November, authorities and agencies concerned are fully geared to extend them the best services. The authorities are making use of the latest means of technology to streamline the process of receiving and dispatching [...]
Salaries in Saudi Arabia’s private sector are set to increase by five percent over the next 12 amid an increase in demand for Saudi nationals in the private sector, a new survey said on Tuesday. A total of 30 percent of 250 companies surveyed in the kingdom said they had difficultly retaining their staff, up [...]
Saudi Arabia has announced plans to localise nursing jobs in medical facilities across the kingdom, a move that could cause foreign nurses to lose their jobs. In a circular to its administrative units, Saudi’s Ministry of Health (MoH) indicated that contracts with foreign nurses who have completed 10 years of service will be terminated, Saudi [...]
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) unveiled plans to open the kingdom’s skies to Gulf airlines. Khalid Al Khaibary, spokesman for the GACA, has said that the authority is seriously considering allowing the GCC-based airlines to operate domestic services in the kingdom. The GACA’s move came at a time when there were [...]
Dubai, Aug 18 (PTI) Saudi Arabia is the cheapest place to build in the Middle East, while construction in Bahrain costs more than anywhere else in the Gulf region, a new report has revealed. The study by international built asset consultancy EC Harris indicated that it was almost half as expensive to build in Saudi [...]
Car sales in Gulf Arab states will rise by low single digits this year, far below forecasts, hampered by regional unrest and supply disruptions after Japan’s earthquake. Some 1.2 million cars are forecast to be sold in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states this year, a 4.5 percent rise from 2010 but below the [...]
Monster Employment Index Gulf Rises 8% Month-over-Month The Monster Employment Index is a monthly gauge of online job demand in Middle-east based on a real-time review of tens of thousands of employer job opportunities culled from a large representative selection of career Web sites and online job listings. The Index does not reflect the trend [...]
There is widespread understanding that with oil prices around $100 per barrel, Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth is providing vast revenue inflows, enabling a strong fiscal position with low government debt and high government savings. This wealth is particularly timely as the government has increased spending and cash transfers to Saudi citizens in the wake of [...]
British Airways has announced plans to ramp up the number of flights from London to Riyadh amid a surge in demand, the second such increase in less than six weeks. The London-based carrier said in June it would increase the number of flights from five to six times a week, but said Wednesday it now [...]
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