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SR2 Billion Company to Set Up Universities
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News |
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JEDDAH, 17 August 2005 — In a significant first, a group of Saudi investors plan to establish a joint stock company with a capital of SR2 billion ($533 million) in order to set up advanced private...
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Riyadh Eyes Venezuelan Model to Tackle Poverty
Javid Hassan, Arab News |
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RIYADH, 17 August 2005 — The Kingdom has shown interest in seeking Venezuela’s cooperation in formulating a strategy for poverty alleviation using the Latin American nation’s experience in social welfare...
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Colored Wristbandwagon Rolling Past Charities
Maryam Yamani, Arab News |
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JEDDAH, 17 August 2005 — Colored wristbands originally designed as a way to raise charitable contributions and give the wearers the chance to make a statement instead are contributing to the makers...
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Abdullah to Stay On as SEC Chairman
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News |
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JEDDAH, 17 August 2005 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah will continue as chairman of the Supreme Economic Council (SEC), a high-level policy making body that oversees the Kingdom’s...
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The Tipping Point in Iraq
Fawaz Turki, disinherited@yahoo.com |
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The tipping point in the American public’s support for the Iraq war may already be here, its arrival accelerated by an unlikely figure: A middle-aged, middle-class, middle-brow American woman whose...
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What the Disengagement Is Not
Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English. |
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It is rather peculiar how the Palestinian Authority opted to get engaged in a process that was solely aimed at excluding it, and how the debate has completely shifted from Israel’s real motives to...
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Editorial: Air Travel Safety
17 August 2005 |
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The crashes within a week of two passenger aircraft belonging to small airlines raise concerns that economic pressures on low-cost operators force some into dangerous compromises on the maintenance...
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