TOURISM

Saudi Tourism Officials Eye $20b Investment for Al-Ula, with Roadshow Planned for This Year – Report

Madain Saleh, an archaeological site located in Al-Ula, in the Madinah Region in the Hejaz, Saudi Arabia.
A recent report in Reuters revealed Saudi Arabia's big ambitions for Al-Ula, in the northwestern corner of the kingdom that was a key site for an ancient civilization and is near to the future planned city NEOM.

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MSCI Inclusion

Landmark for Saudi stocks as index providers become kingmakers

A landmark year for Saudi Arabia’s stock market will have little to do with Saudi Aramco, the country’s oil giant whose IPO plan has been...

 

Technology

Delivery App Outdoes Uber by Letting Saudis Bargain on the Go

The experience that follows recreates the bargaining of a traditional market. Once the customer picks out items from a store or restaurant, couriers bid to...

 

Society

Commentary: Few people are capable of evaluating Saudi social change. I am one of them.

I witnessed this change underway two weeks ago, when I attended a TEDx event in Riyadh, where my son Yossuf was among a dozen young...

 

Cybersecurity

Years-Long Phishing Campaign Targets Saudi Gov Agencies

The campaign, codenamed “Bad Tidings,” has sought out victims’ credentials with clever fake landing pages pretending to be the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior’s e-Service...

 

Saudi-Morocco

Saudi king calls Morocco king to review ‘brotherly relations’

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud called Morocco’s King Mohammed VI to review “brotherly relations” between the two countries, state news agency SPA...

 

Secretary of State

Mike Pompeo calls Saudi Crown Prince to thank him for advancing Yemen political process

According to a press release Mr Pompeo called the Saudi Crown Prince to thank him for his "support for UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths’ efforts...

 

E-Commerce

Saudi online shopping rises to near 50% in 2018

Almost half of internet users in Saudi Arabia engaged in some form of online shopping last year, the country’s Communications and Information Technology Commission has...

 

SABIC

Saudi SABIC signs construction deals with nine companies

SABIC, one of the world’s largest diversified petrochemicals companies, recently signed contracts with nine construction contractors where eight of them are based on the Kingdom...

 

Water

Saudi in fresh move to reduce water consumption

Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s driest countries, has announced a national programme for rationalising water consumption in the Kingdom. The programme sets ambitious targets that...

 

Misk Accelerator

Misk program gives a boost to young Saudis who mean business

Young Arabs are taking the region’s offline markets online, from fitness and recruitment to car repairs and chalet hire. Nineteen start-ups have been chosen so far...

 

Photography

Saudi photographer captures beauty of the Milky Way from coastal city

The Milky Way season brings with it loads of breathtaking photographs flaunting sparkly clear horizons and glimmering dark skies....

 

Saudi Football

UAE vs. Saudi Arabia friendly gives both chance to press reset button ahead of World Cup qualifiers

Both teams will not be at full strength tonight and it will be hard to read anything into the result. But this match offers up...

 

Marriott

Marriott opens hotel, serviced apartments in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The opening of properties marks the fifth collaboration between Marriott International and Dur Hospitality following the Riyadh Marriott Airport, the Marriott Executive Apartments Riyadh Convention...

 

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U.S.-Saudi Energy

Permian shale output closes gap with Saudi Arabia as rig count doubles, confirming US’ powerhouse status

In New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert, Exxon Mobil Corp. is building a massive shale oil project that its executives boast will allow it to ride out...

 

Secretary of State

Pompeo, in Israel, says Hezbollah putting Lebanon at risk

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday described the heavily armed Hezbollah group as a risk to their fellow Lebanese and conferred with Israel...

 

U.S. Congress

New Congress Sounds Alarms for U.S.-Gulf Arab Partnership

The biggest issue roiling U.S.-Gulf Arab relations is the Yemen war, which continues to be used by both the administration’s Democratic opponents and internationalist Republicans...

 

Fighter Jet Sales

America’s Fighter Jet Makers Are Thriving, Thanks to Trump and Putin

Three years ago, just one U.S. fighter jet was expected to still be in production next year: Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a warplane...

 

ISIS

The Evolution of ISIS: From a Rogue State to a Tiny Sliver

When the Islamic State raised its black flag over the Syrian city of Raqqa in early 2014, it began its transformation from fringe regional player...

 

Yemen Civil War

Hunger stalks Yemen’s remote villages after four years of war

As Yeman’s war grinds into its fifth year with peace efforts stalling, ten-year-old Afaf’s father sees little hope he will be able to give his...

 

Qatar

Exclusive: Qatar asks IAEA to intervene over ‘threat’ posed by UAE nuclear plant

Qatar has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to intervene in a dispute over a $24 billion nuclear power plant which the United...

 

Iran

Looking to Elections, Supreme Leader Places Allies in Key Positions

Khamenei’s moves to consolidate his power have led to growing speculation in Iran that the position of its president – current or future – will...

 

Emissions Technology

Billionaire-backed Carbon Engineering to build first ‘negative emissions’ facility

In October, Gates, the richest person in the world, announced he would be investing in “breakthrough” technologies targeted at the electricity, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation and...

 

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