With an estimated $112 billion in opportunities in Saudi Arabia’s nuclear sector international companies are actively positioning themselves contracts to build 16 reactors in the coming decades.
Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, has undergone dramatic growth and modernization during the last decade - an extraordinary period of economic expansion and population growth. Riyadh's population now exceeds 5 million with its metropolitan area claiming close to 7 million people.
Floods that have ravaged Saudi Arabia from its capital, Riyadh, to regions in the Kingdom's Eastern Province have claimed 11 lives, with four individuals unaccounted for.
A royal decree calls for the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs to turn over municipal land to the Ministry of Housing which will develop infrastructure such as roads on the properties before distributing them to citizens.
The streets of the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh were inundated with water after a rare rainstorm dumped two hours of rain onto the desert city, leaving at least four dead, many more missing, and millions in damage.
The Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry will host a new conference, the Private Sector in the Middle East (PSMEC) in Riyadh on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013.
Pending approval from the Council of Ministers, Saudi Arabia could soon join its GCC neighbors in establishing a Friday-Saturday weekend. Oman will officially shift its weekend beginning this May leaving only Saudi Arabia to make the transition.
