Company licensed to run east-west railway
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News |
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JEDDAH: The much-awaited east-west railway (land bridge) project received a boost yesterday as the Council of Ministers licensed a joint stock company to establish and operate the estimated $5 billion...
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Madain Saleh now a World Heritage Site
Angelo Young, Arab News |
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JEDDAH: The World Heritage Committee of the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has approved Saudi Arabia’s first site of universal cultural value. The northern ancient...
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Places in varsities for kidney donors
Samir Al-Saadi, Arab News |
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JEDDAH: The Prince Fahd bin Salman Charitable Society for the Care of Kidney Patients yesterday announced the allocation of 5,500 university places in the coming academic year for kidney patients,...
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Higher education sector undergoes revamp
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News |
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JEDDAH: Forty-five health colleges and five health institutes for girls that were hitherto under the Health Ministry would be brought under universities in respective cities, it was announced yesterday. “Custodian...
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India’s Kabul mission attacked
Sardar Ahmad, AP |
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KABUL: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a diplomat’s car at the Indian Embassy in Kabul yesterday, killing 41 people and wounding nearly 150 others in the deadliest attack...
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Young Saudi woman drives to death
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News |
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JEDDAH: Police have ruled out any criminal involvement in the death of a 21-year-old Saudi woman who died when the car she was driving overturned at high speed in Riyadh on Saturday night. Maj....
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Editorial: Embassy attack a warning
8 July 2008 |
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IT has been a bad two days on the terrorist front. Yesterday, in the Afghan capital a suicide attack on the Indian Embassy killed at least 41 people. Hours earlier in the Pakistani capital, a suicide...
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Iraq a bottomless cash pit
Linda Heard, sierra12th@yahoo.co.uk |
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THE UAE has generously written off Iraq’s debts to the tune of just under $7 billion to assist Baghdad’s reconstruction efforts. President of the UAE Sheikh Khalifah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan...
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