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  • Open Data
    Open data developments in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Dubai

    These developments in three GCC countries show how these countries among other Arab countries such as Tunisia and Morocco have evidently begun recognising the need for openness in government data for the betterment of societies and communities in the region. This has been particularly evident from the recently published Open Data Barometer, where nine countries were assessed - four of which are GCC countries (Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar).

  • Education
    Saudi minister’s selfie goes viral

    Saudi Arabia’s new minister of education has remarkably broken protocol and allowed the ministry staff and visitors to take selfie pictures with him.

  • Saudi-India
    India, Saudi Arabia ink Haj agreement for 2015

    The Haj quota for India for the year would be 136,020 and 100,020 pilgrims would come through Haj Committee of India, while the remaining 36,000 would come through Private Tour Operators.

  • Saudi-Jordan
    $176 million Saudi grant to finance five health projects

    The government and the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) on Tuesday signed five grant agreements worth $176 million (around JD125 million), as part of Saudi Arabia’s contribution to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) grant to the Kingdom.

  • Subsidies
    Reform of Saudi subsidies imminent: source

    Saudi Arabia is looking to overhaul its costly subsidies system, an informed source told Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday, at the same time that the governor of the Kingdom’s central bank said the system was “distorting and inefficient” and needed to be reformed.

  • Pace of Reform
    Saudi university backs slow road to modernization

    Researchers at top science institute say education will have more effect than vocal opposition.

  • Tadawul
    Saudi petchem stocks extend gains as TASI rises

    Rallying oil prices and positive corporate news boosted Gulf equity markets on Tuesday, although consumer stocks in Saudi Arabia pulled back after gaining strongly earlier in the week.

  • Geopolitics
    Saudi Oil Is Seen as Lever to Pry Russian Support From Syria’s Assad

    Saudi Arabia has been trying to pressure President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to abandon his support for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, using its dominance of the global oil markets at a time when the Russian government is reeling from the effects of plummeting oil prices.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Head of U.N. inquiry into Gaza conflict to quit over Israeli bias claim

    Schabas' departure highlights the sensitivity of the U.N. investigation just weeks after prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague said they had started a preliminary inquiry into alleged atrocities in the Palestinian territories.

  • Car Culture
    The Western world has turned its back on car culture

    The majority of the world’s population now lives in cities. And young people are increasingly willing to stay there, unlike their parents, who flocked to the suburbs as their families grew. Nearly two-thirds of American “millennials,” or people born after 1984, live in cities today and some 40% say they’re not leaving. For them, “cars are not as relevant as a status symbol, and getting a license is no longer a ‘rite of passage’ in the way it once was,” writes Davidson.