Analysis

In First Interview as Capital Markets Authority Chairman, Mohammed Al-Jadaan Indicates Willingness to Open Stock Market to Wider Foreign Investment

• SUSTG Team
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• 10. 21. 2015

• Capital Markets

  

  CMA Tightens Curbs on Anonymous Investors in Preventive Measure to Curb Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

  SUSTG Team  |  10. 14. 2015

  Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority has further tightened its restrictions on anonymous investors trading shares through brokers in a bid to prevent money laundering and financing of militant groups, Reuters reports.

• Riyadh Metro

  

  Riyadh Metro Milestone Hit As Drilling Completed in First Tunnel Section

  SUSTG Team  |  10. 8. 2015

  Saudi Arabia's long-awaited Riyadh metro project has hit a major milestone as a consortium led by Spanish construction giant FCC said it has completed the drilling work related to the first tunnel section of Line Five (Green line).

• Saudi Arabia at the United Nations

  

  Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir Deplores World’s Inability to End Bloodshed in Syria in UN Speech

  SUSTG Team  |  10. 2. 2015

  In a passionate speech to the members of the UN General Assembly yesterday, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said, “those whose hands are stained with the blood of the Syrian people” have no place in a “new Syria.”

• War in Yemen: Maps

  

  An Overview of the Conflict in Yemen, in Maps

  SUSTG Team  |  10. 1. 2015

  The European Council on Foreign Relations published an overview of the conflict in Yemen using maps to show the country's political history and ongoing conflicts. Far from reaching a tidy conclusion, the conflict is "growing, if anything, more complicated by the day."

• U.S.-Saudi

  

  Democratic Ex-Congressman Calls for Deepening of U.S.-Saudi Ties, ‘This partnership serves U.S. economic as well as security interests’

  SUSTG Team  |  9. 29. 2015

  Former Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.) from New York, who served for 30 years in the U.S. House, has penned an op-ed in The Hill outlining the importance of strengthening ties. "As Saudi Arabia adapts to a changing world, the U.S. should renew its relationship with a changing Saudi Arabia."

• Hajj 2015: Mina Stampede

  

  Saudi King Salman Orders Safety Review After Hajj Stampede Tragedy

  SUSTG Team  |  9. 25. 2015

  Saudi Arabia's King Salman has ordered a safety review for the Hajj pilgrimage after at least 717 people died in a stampede at Mina, near the holy city of Mecca.

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  More Airstrikes in Saudi Arabia as Soldiers Said to be Captured by Houthis

  SUSTG Team  |  9. 22. 2015

• Mecca Crane Tragedy

  

  Report: Crane collapse and subsequent action against Binladin Group ‘deeply troubled Saudi King Salman’

  SUSTG Team  |  9. 21. 2015

  Analysts citied by an AFP report say the collapse deeply troubled Saudi King Salman and prompted surprisingly swift action against the group.

• Syrian Refugee Crisis

  

  The Middle East’s Migration Crisis Brings Regional Challenge Home to Europe, Gulf States

  SUSTG Team  |  9. 15. 2015

  As a global crisis emerges on how and even if it is possible to accommodate the displaced from Syria's chaos, a once-distant conflict for many in Western nations and in Gulf states is now a real and visible problem that cannot be ignored.