MUST-READS

• Healthcare
  Indian businessman to invest in Saudi pharma sector

  A UAE-based Indian billionaire will make investments worth SR1 billion in healthcare and pharmaceutical manufacturing sector in the new Jazan industrial city.

• Al-Ahsa
  Saudi deputy governor transferred after Shiite killings

  A royal decree "decided to relieve Emir Jalwi bin Abdulaziz bin Musaid al-Saud" from his post and transfer him to Najran region bordering Yemen, the Saudi Press Agency reported without further explanation.

• OPEC
  In New Oil Order, OPEC’s Choice Is Pricing Power or Sales 

  “We’ve not seen a turning point like this in decades,” Mike Wittner, Societe Generale’s head of oil market research in New York, said by phone yesterday. “Is OPEC going to abdicate its role in the market? If the Saudis do exactly what they’re signaling, and just let the market take care of the overproduction, then it could certainly become irrelevant.”

  • WSJ - OPEC Says Output Fell Sharply Amid Saudi Arabia Reduction
  • Bloomberg - Brent Oil Near 4-Year Low as Glut Seen Untouched by OPEC
• Arab Israelis
  The video of an Israeli cop shooting an Arab citizen that has rocked the country

  The recording is sensational, in part, because the man shot by the Israeli police is an Israeli citizen who happens to be a Muslim and Arab. Arabs account for more than 20 percent of the population of the Jewish state of Israel. Although they are guaranteed full rights, some complain that they are treated as second-class citizens, while many Jewish citizens view their Arab counterparts with suspicion. (Arab citizens, for example, do not have to serve in the Israeli army. Then again, neither do ultra-Orthodox Jews.)

• NCB
  Saudi bank NCB to start trading on Weds after $6 billion share sale

  Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank IPO-NACO.SE 1180.SE will make its Riyadh bourse debut on Wednesday, a statement from the exchange said, having completed a $6 billion initial share sale last week.

  • Bloomberg - Saudi Arabia’s NCB Seen Surging After IPO Is Discounted
• Saudi Public Health
  Women’s gyms flourish in Jeddah as obesity levels rise

  According to recent reports, 72.4 percent of Saudis over the age of 40 suffer from obesity, and 35.6 percent of the general population. Over 44 percent of women are obese, 26.4 percent of men, and 18 percent of children. A recent study revealed that a whopping SR500 million a year is spent in the Kingdom on treating people suffering from illnesses related to obesity, especially diabetes. The disease has increased 30 percent over the past 10 years.

• Al-Ahsa Attack
  Opinion: The Crime that Changed the Face of Saudi Arabia

  Last week, the winds of change blew with a vengeance in Saudi Arabia, when armed terrorists opened fire on visitors to a Shi’ite Husseiniyah (meeting house) in the Al-Ahsa province, killing eight people, among them three children. True, this is not the first time Saudi Arabia has witnessed a crime of this nature, where innocent civilians and children have lost their lives. In fact, it has seen even worse. But it is the first time such terrorist acts have played on the country’s dissonant sectarian chord in such an ugly and dangerous way, in an attempt to fan the flames of sedition and strife between its people. It is also the first time Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, and its entire Council of Religious Scholars, have come out in defense of Saudi Shi’ites in this way, and they were joined by all groups in society—unequivocally and without pretense.

  • Al Arabiya - Saudi authorities foil attack related to al-Ahsa killings
  • Arab News - Saudi unity: No compromise!
  • WSJ - Funeral for Saudi Shiites Turns Into Show of Unity
• Al-Ahsa
  Saudi authorities arrest 33 suspects over terror attack

  Security forces have arrested 33 Saudi terror suspects related to the terrorist operation in Al-Ahsa governorate in which five people were killed and nine others were injured, security spokesman of the Ministry of Interior Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki said.

• Nuclear
  KSA sets up nuclear regulatory authority

  The nuclear safety authority of Finland (STUK) is working in close coordination with King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE), Riyadh in designing and executing a program to establish a nuclear regulatory authority for the Kingdom.

• Film
  Cinema green-lighted

  The green light has been given for establishing cinema houses in Saudi Arabia, following the reported agreement of four government entities.

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