London-based fashion retailer LK Bennett will open 12-15 stores in the Middle East over the next three to five years as it looks to expand outside of its home market, its CEO said. The upmarket shoe and bag brand, made famous in recent months for being a wardrobe staple of the Duchess of Cambridge Kate [...]

Saudi Arabia’s suggestion last month that it will try to limit how much money expatriate workers send home showed concern about the cost of having foreigners make up nearly a third of the population. An estimated nine million foreign workers and their dependents remitted SR26.8bn ($7.1bn) out of the country in the second quarter of [...]

The Saudi higher court in Riyadh announced on late Thursday that Friday is the first day of Dhu al-Hija Islamic month and that Eid al-Adha will be on Sunday November 6th, 2011. Dhu al-Hija or “the one of pilgrimage” is the twelfth and the last month of the Islamic calendar. The higher court decided on [...]

JEDDAH, 24 Dhul Qadah/22 Oct (IINA)- To prevent overstaying in the Kingdom, airlines will have to provide financial guarantees that they will transport Hajj pilgrims to their home countries by Muharram 15, 1433H (approximately Dec. 10, 2011), Dr. Fuad Bin Abdulsalam Al-Farsi, Minister of Hajj, told Okaz/Saudi Gazette. He said this measure will be implemented [...]

Saudi Arabia is the top ranked country in the Middle East for the ease of doing business through regulatory reforms, a World Bank report has said. Out of 183 economies around the world, the Gulf kingdom was ranked 12th in the Doing Business in a More Transparent World report. It ranks the economies in 10 [...]

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 [...]

Jeddah, KSA: STC has announced new reductions on outgoing calls from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to all other countries of the world through Marhaba prepaid calling cards as well as from fixed phone lines and call cabins. The new reduced rates allows to customers to communicate with their families, friends and loved ones all [...]

As continuation to services and packages recently released by STC in 4G LTE technology, since its antecedence in practically and directly introducing this service to customers, the company offered its customers subscription to Pro1 package with free Quick net modem, free 4G Sim card and 10GB free of charge for three months. The offer is [...]

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 [...]

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has broken into the top 20 most competitive economies of the world for the first time, which also saw other Gulf countries continue their upward trend of recent years.   The Global Competitiveness Report 2011-12, released Wednesday by the World Economic Forum (WEF), put Saudi Arabia at No. 17 from No. 21 [...]