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FII Kicks Off in Riyadh

Future Investment Initiative
The Future Investment Initiative (FII) kicked off today at the Ritz Carlton, Riyadh with a standing room only crowd despite an exodus of CEOs and other top executives in recent weeks.

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Jamal Khashoggi

Erdoğan rejects Saudi account of Khashoggi killing

Contrary to expectations Erdoğan’s first update on the three-week-old case did not officially reveal the existence of audio and video evidence understood to be in...

 

Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi King, Crown Prince receive Khashoggi’s family in Riyadh

Staff writer, Al Arabiya EnglishTuesday, 23 October 2018 Text size A A A Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received at the Al Yamamah palace...

 

Jamal Khashoggi

Perspective: You don’t honor Khashoggi by insulting his country

Let me start with our own Saudi media, in which some of the “reporting” and opinion published in the past two weeks has been a...

 

Foreign Policy

Analysis: The Trump Administration’s Hard Choices on Saudi Arabia

In reacting to Mr. Khashoggi’s killing, the Trump administration should balance our values and interests. A critical first step is establishing the facts. The Saudi...

 

Future Investment Initiative

Saudi Arabia signs $50bn agreements at Future Investment Initiative

More than 20 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) and agreements worth in excess of $50bn (SAR187.6bn) were signed on Day 1 of the Future Investment Initiative...

 

Energy

Saudi Arabia has ‘no intention’ to repeat 1973 oil embargo

"We suffered in the past from political crises, this is not the first time," Al Falih told Russian news agency Tass. "But Saudi Arabia is...

 

Saudi-Pakistan

PM Imran Khan seeks Saudi investors for Pakistan oil refineries

Pakistan's recently appointed Prime Minister Imran Khan has confirmed the county is in talks with investors from Saudi Arabia relating to the construction of oil refineries....

 

Technology

The Saudi Funds Supporting Tech’s Growth

Drawing from Crunchbase and other data sources, we’re putting together a few datasets summarizing Saudi government and royal family investments in technology startups (and some...

 

Green Energy

Saudi Arabia’s road to green energy

Saudi Arabia marked World Energy Day on Monday with an accomplishment: it has jumped one spot on the Arab Energy Efficiency Index in the past...

 

McKinsey and Company

McKinsey Takes Heat for Its Saudi Work

McKinsey & Company was in the spotlight on Monday after The New York Times reported that the consulting firm had prepared a report that may...

 

Saudia

Saudi Airlines and Etihad sign codeshare agreement

Saudi Arabia’s national flag carrier, Saudia, and Etihad Airways, the national is the flag carrier and the second-largest airline of the United Arab Emirates, have...

 

Maaden

Saudi Ma’aden says hires Korea’s Daelim to build 3.35 billion riyal ammonia plant

State-run Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) plans to build a third ammonia plant in at a cost of about 3.35 billion Saudi riyals ($893 million),...

 

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