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  • Saudi Arabia: Cardiovascular diseases account for 37% of all deaths

    Cardiovascular diseases account for 37 per cent of all deaths in Saudi Arabia according to Saudi Health Ministry statistics local media reported. A recent statistic, obtained by Al Watan newspaper, also showed that 15 per cent of Saudi Arabia’s population suffer from hypertension, a risk factor that contributes significantly to cardiovascular diseases.

  • Saudi Arabia to be 24pc of Mena pharma market

    In recent years, a range of healthcare reforms has taken place in Saudi Arabia to support and incentivise pharma manufacturers. These include 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) into the sector, efforts to increase the total local pharmaceutical production by 20% by the end of 2020, the launch of e-visas to make the country more accessible, as well as opportunities for business expansion, due to the country’s reliance on imported pharmaceuticals.

  • G20 Trade and Investment Ministers Meet

    G20 Trade and Investment Ministers will hold a meeting under the Saudi G20 Presidency on September 22, 2020, to strengthen trade and investment policy cooperation towards an inclusive and sustainable economic growth amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Air show, fireworks planned for 90th Saudi National Day

    The air show, the largest so far on the National Day, will have the participation of 60 military and civilian aircraft. It will be broadcast on Sept. 23 on the Saudi TV Channel at 4 p.m.

  • Iran and Turkey are ‘serial infringers’ of UN weapons embargoes, Prince Turki al-Faisal says

    The region will bear the brunt of the divisions among international powers over proposals to maintain restraints on Turkey and Iran, a leading Saudi Arabian statesman said. Prince Turki Al Faisal, the former Saudi Arabia ambassador to the US, told The National that UN and international action was needed to address contraventions of international law.

  • Gaming hardware sales in Saudi Arabia, UAE surge by 29% in H1 2020

    One of the few sectors that have been positively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, achieving robust growth as a result of spikes in consumer demand during the lockdown, is gaming. According to GfK Point of Sales tracking of the sector in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the first six months revenue generated by gaming hardware surged by 29 percent, bringing the overall value of the market to $256 million.

  • Commentary: Arab States and Israel contemplate a post-Trump era

    “The concern the Arabs have with a Democratic administration is that it would desperately want to prove what Obama did [on Iran] was right, but it was wrong,” said a senior Arab diplomat. “If they say, ‘Let us go back to a table and we bring our allies,’ or at least take their concerns into account, that’s a different story. But it didn’t happen. That’s why Trump was so welcome in the region — that’s how it all started.”

  • ‘Saudi Arabia seeks to join many intellectual property treaties’

    Saudi Arabia seeks to join many intellectual property treaties by the end of this year, said the Kingdom’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Wasil, on Monday while referring to the Kingdom’s joining the “Locarno Agreement” and the “Vienna Agreement early this month. Al-Wasil also said that the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP) has set up a national committee for the enforcement of intellectual property rights and worked for the creation and development of some intellectual property laws.

  • Saudi Arabia’s KSRelief signs $46m deal with UNICEF for Yemen programs

    he King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) on Monday signed a joint agreement with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to implement seven projects worth $46 million.

  • Mills sale heralds new era for privatization in Saudi Arabia

    Saudi Arabia has hailed a new era for food security in the kingdom as the country seeks to complete the privatisation of its milling industry. The Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Abdulrahman A Al-Fadley, applauded the "historic" event as Saudi Arabia’s state grain buyer Saudi Grains Organisation (SAGO) said the second and final stage of the bidding process for its mills had started.