Analysis

Report: Saudi Arabia to Work with OPEC to ‘Stabilize Prices’

• SUSTG Team
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• 11. 24. 2015

• Land Tax

  

  Land Tax Finalized: 2.5% Annual Fee on Property Approved in Cabinet Session Chaired by King Salman

  SUSTG Team  |  11. 23. 2015

  Saudi Arabia's cabinet, in a meeting chaired by King Salman, imposed a 2.5 percent fee on undeveloped land within city limits intended for residential or commercial use, it announced in a statement on state media on Monday.

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  Storms Pound Saudi Arabia as Floods in Jeddah Claim 12 lives

  SUSTG Team  |  11. 18. 2015

• Consumer Spending

  

  Consumers in Saudi Arabia Unaffected by Slump in Oil Price, Government Fiscal Policy Shifts

  SUSTG Team  |  11. 2. 2015

  Consumers in Saudi Arabia are thus far feeling little effects of the fall in oil prices on the broader Saudi economy, Bloomberg reports, though the government is taking measures to curb spending and adjust its fiscal policy to new realities.

• Drone Footage of Damascus Destruction

  

  This is Damascus Now: Incredible Drone Footage Reveals Extent of Devastation in Damascus from Syria’s Bloody Civil War

  SUSTG Team  |  10. 23. 2015

  Incredible aerial footage of a contested suburb of Syria's capital, Damascus, has emerged showing widespread devastation to a once vibrant city.

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

  SUSTG Team  |  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."