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Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers meet in Beijing on Thursday.
Saudi, Iranian foreign minister meet in China
Saudi Gazette reportBEIJING — Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian met in China on Thursday for the first time.Pictures from the meeting's venue showed the two ministers walking side by side and exchanging talks and laughs before going into an official talks session. Chinese foreign minister welcomed the two ministers ahead of their session.Abdollahian expressed to the Saudi minister the inconvenience of making the long trip from Tehran to Beijing. Prince Faisal responded by saying that the trip from Tehran to Riyadh won’t take more than two hours.They discussed ways to strengthen bilateral relations in many fields and implement the agreement signed in Beijing, including the reopening of embassies within the...
April 06, 2023

Saudi, Iranian foreign minister meet in China

The third meeting of the Saudi-Moroccan political consultation committee in Riyadh.
Saudi-Morocco political consultation committee holds third meeting
RIYADH — Senior officials of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia and Morocco held here on Wednesday the third meeting of the Political Consultation and the Follow-up committees. Assistant Minister of State for African Countries Affairs Ambassador Dr. Sami bin Abdullah Al-Saleh headed the Saudi delegation, while the Moroccan side was headed by the Director General of Bilateral Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Ambassador Fouad Yazough.The meeting was attended by Saudi Ambassador to Morocco Abdullah bin Saad Al-Ghurairy, Moroccan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dr. Mustafa Al-Mansouri, and several officials and representatives of the two countries' foreign ministries.The two sides discussed ways to enhance...
April 06, 2023

Saudi-Morocco political consultation committee holds third meeting

Prince Mohammed International Airport in Madinah.
Indonesian pilgrim saved after cardiac arrest at Madinah airport
Saudi Gazette reportMADINAH — Medical teams at Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah have managed to save the life of an Indonesian pilgrim who suffered a cardiac arrest at the airport's departure hall.The airport health control center received the 73-year-old pilgrim, who became unconscious after her heart stopped breathing, while she was at the international departure hall.The medical teams immediately performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to the pilgrim, which led to the return of spontaneous blood circulation and pulse and an increase in the oxygen level to 90% after three cycles of resuscitation.The teams carried out the required medical checkups after the patient's condition stabilized, in addition to providing her with necessary medical...
April 06, 2023

Indonesian pilgrim saved after cardiac arrest at Madinah airport

A patient in critical condition is being evacuated.
Shoura adopts proposal to establish aeromedical evacuation authority
Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The Shoura Council has suggested establishing an aeromedical evacuation authority to enhance the quality of the emergency medical services by providing critically-ill patients access to advanced medical care. The Shoura adopted a proposal to codify the procedure, which depends on special systems, based on the importance of cases. The proposed project to give the beneficiaries access to critical medical care at the right time will lead to reducing the incidence of critical cases, and the percentages of disabilities and complications resulting from emergency situations, such as accidents and diseases that affect the lives of individuals and society. The Shoura proposal comes within the framework of strengthening a clear system for the provided...
April 06, 2023

Shoura adopts proposal to establish aeromedical evacuation authority

Commerce Ministry's field inspection teams visit one of the stores offering promotion sales.
Commerce Ministry exposes fraudulent discount offers by stores
Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The Ministry of Commerce has revealed several fraud and violations by stores in offering discounts. This came after field tours on different facilities to check on the reliability of discount offers to ensure consumers rights. In a video published through its official account on Twitter, the ministry revealed the most prominent violation related to discounts. A store announced discounts ranging from 25-40%, which does not match with the obtained permit that stipulated discounts of 10-50%. Additionally, the ministry said that there are also stores who announce discounts without obtaining a permit allowing them to do so. The tasks of the field teams affiliated to the ministry start from monitoring the commercial discounts requests as soon as merchants...
April 06, 2023

Commerce Ministry exposes fraudulent discount offers by stores

Prince Faisal bin Salman rides the electric bus after inaugurating the project.
Madinah emir inaugurates electric bus service in Prophet's City
MADINAH — Emir of Madinah Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, who is the Chairman of Al Madinah Region Development Authority (MDA), has inaugurated the electric bus services, one of the modern models of eco-friendly modes of public transportation, which provides services to visitors of the Prophet’s Mosque and residents of the region.The ceremony was held in the presence of the Minister of Transport and Logistics Services, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Transport General Authority (TGA), Eng. Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, and the CEO of Saudi Public Transport Company (SAPTCO), Eng. Khalid Abdullah Al-Hogail.The electric bus is one of the TGA's projects being implemented in partnership with MDA and the region's municipality. It is an extension of the experiments...
April 06, 2023

Madinah emir inaugurates electric bus service in Prophet's City

Dr. Majed Al-Qasabi
Al-Qasabi: Ministry will strictly monitor prices and quality of vehicle parts
Saudi Gazette reportRIYADH — Minister of Commerce Dr. Majed Al-Qasabi has said that his ministry will monitor strictly the quality and prices of automobile spare parts sold in Saudi Arabia.During a meeting with representatives of 36 car agencies in the Kingdom on Wednesday, he underlined the need to raise the satisfaction level of consumers with strict control over the quality and prices of spare parts.Al-Qasabi urged automobile dealers in the Kingdom to play their role in providing periodic maintenance and warranty services as well as to make available the necessary spare parts to consumers.The minister discussed with the dealers ways of ensuring the adequate supply of automobile parts and the improvement of maintenance and warranty services. He emphasized that the ministry will beef up...
April 06, 2023

Al-Qasabi: Ministry will strictly monitor prices and quality of vehicle parts

Al-Mamoun Intermediate School in Hofuf
Al-Ahsa school officials sacked after video of student detained in classroom goes viral
Saudi Gazette reportHOFUF — Social media sites in Saudi Arabia have been buzzing with the story of a student who was detained in a school classroom in the eastern city of Hofuf in the Al-Ahsa governorate. This let to prompt action on the part of the education authorities in the governorate who sacked the school director and his deputy.Director General of the Education Department in Al-Ahsa Hamad Al-Issa issued two decisions to terminate the services of the director and deputy director of Al-Mamoun Intermediate School in Hofuf after forming a committee to investigate the matter.The video clip showed the student’s call for help from the window of a classroom on the second floor of the school after the end of the school hours. This revealed that the student was detained inside the school...
April 06, 2023

Al-Ahsa school officials sacked after video of student detained in classroom goes viral

The Yemeni nationals used a residential house as their hideout to manage the beggary operations by exploiting children with physical disabilities to beg in front of mosques and shops.
Jeddah police arrest Yemenis, who exploited disabled children for begging
Saudi Gazette reportJEDDAH — The security authorities in Jeddah arrested a number of Yemeni nationals, who were part of a gang engaged in making money by exploiting physically disabled children for begging.They used a popular residential house as their hideout to manage the beggary operations by exploiting children with physical disabilities to beg in front of public places, especially mosques and shops.The Public Security sources said that the arrested persons confessed to their crime of engaging in begging with pre-meditated planning, and that they used to disperse children in public places to practice beggary and later collect the money from them.The sources indicated that preliminary investigation procedures are being completed against those arrested before referring them to the...
April 06, 2023

Jeddah police arrest Yemenis, who exploited disabled children for begging

Fitch attributed the upgrade of the Kingdom’s rating to the strength of fiscal and external balance sheets, including the government debt/GDP ratio and sovereign net foreign assets with a stable outlook
Fitch upgrades Saudi Arabia’s rating to A+ with a stable outlook
Saudi Gazette reportRIYADH — Fitch Ratings has upgraded Saudi Arabia’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘A+’ from ‘A’. The agency attributed the upgrade of the Kingdom’s rating to the strength of fiscal and external balance sheets, including the government debt/GDP ratio and sovereign net foreign assets (SNFA) with a stable outlook.The global credit rating agency said that foreign reserves excluding gold remained broadly stable in 2022, at $459 billion, as financial account outflows in the form of investments and deposits abroad offset the substantial current account surplus, accounting for 13.6 percent of GDP, valuing $150 billion. Saudi Arabia has one of the highest reserve coverage ratios among Fitch-rated sovereigns at 18 months of current...
April 05, 2023

Fitch upgrades Saudi Arabia’s rating to A+ with a stable outlook

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