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  • The Saudi Cultural Mission’s New Headquarters
     

    The new SACM headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia provides a modern hub for Saudi Students in the United States, and stands as a symbol of the strong cultural relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Until recently, the future of the iconic Watergate hotel and office complex in Washington DC, which was the site of […]

     
  • With customs union, GCC edges toward closer economic ties
     

    Saudi Arabia, the biggest Arab economy, is leading moves toward political and economic cooperation, which it believes would give the mostly Sunni-led monarchies of the Gulf more power to withstand any confrontation with Shi’ite Iran. Closer business ties within the GCC, which consists of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain and has […]

     
  • Ramadan 1433
     

    Ramadan means more in the lives of Muslims than refraining from eating and drinking during the daylight hours. The ritual fasting during the holy month is among the five pillars of Islam: Shahadah, the declaration of faith; Salat, five daily prayers; Zakat, charitable giving; Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca; and Sawm of Ramadan, the ritual […]

     
  • Saudi car sales to hit $25 billion by 2013
     

    Saudi Arabia has ambitious plans to further expand its lucrative automobile industry. In 2011 alone, the Kingdom announced the sale of approximately 800,000 cars potentially increasing to 1 million vehicles per year by the end of the current decade. In this context, the country is planning to start manufacturing automobile parts by 2013 in addition […]

     
  • Muslims across the world prepare to observe Ramadan
     

    Muslims around the world begin fasting on Friday in observation of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islam when the faithful abstain from eating food or drinking water from sunrise to sunset…. Every year, identifying the start of Ramadan is like a waiting game; Islamic scholars must see the new crescent moon in the night skies […]

     
  • Gulf States Move to Diversify Income Sources
     

    Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, has identified mining as a key investment area after oil and petrochemicals, and is spending an estimated $38 billion to develop two cities centered around mining…“The idea is to try and improve the range of benefits and advantages of doing business in the G.C.C. and in Saudi Arabia, […]

     
  • Moving forward with nationalisation in Saudi Arabia
     

    “Nitaqat represents an effort to introduce more incentives for companies to employ Saudis and in that sense it is an improvement on what went before,” says James Reeve, an economist at the local Samba Financial Group. “The reason you are hearing more complaints is probably because the system is being enforced with greater vigour.” Despite […]

     
  • More than half of GCC population under age 25
     

    The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have a low population compared with other regions, totaling 45 million people in 2011, less than 1 percent of the global population, a recently published report read. The report, filed by Kuwait Financial Center (Markaz), highlighting the GCC demographic shift, said the region is young, with 54 […]

     
  • Saudi public sector’s bank credit rebounds
     

    Bank lending in Saudi Arabia is continuing at a generally brisk pace, the National Commercial Bank said in its “GCC Financial Market Quarterly” released Monday.The report said liquidity conditions supporting this credit expansion remain very benign. However, the growing economic confidence has begun to hit deposit growth somewhat and the annual pace of expansion decelerated […]

     
  • Jadwa Investment’s Saud June 2012 Inflation Report
     

    Jadwa Investment’s recently released June inflation report found year-on-year inflation for Saudi Arabia eased again in June, slipping to 4.9 percent from 5.1 percent in May, the first time it has been below 5 percent since August 2011. The Riyadh-based investment firm also found lower rental inflation caused most of the fall. Jadwa’s report is […]

     

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  • Monsha’at reveals key economic indicators for Saudi fashion industry

    The Kingdom’s fashion sector is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 48% between 2021 and 2025.   The sector’s value amounted to roughly SAR 92.3 billion in 2021, Monsha’at added.   It was valued at SAR 46.9 billion in 2022, with consumer spending on imported brands reaching SAR 27.4 billion in 2021.

  • Saudi Arabia aims to attract over $3 trillion in investments by 2030

    Saudi Minister of Investment Khalid Al-Falih underscored the plan to draw investments and financial flows exceeding $3 trillion by 2030. Saudi Arabia, participating in the first Sino-Gulf Cooperation for Industries and Investments Forum in Xiamen, China, on May 23 and 24, focused on its ambitious Vision 2030. Led by Minister Al-Falih, the Saudi delegation included key representatives from both the government and private sectors.

  • Thousands of upgraded properties in Saudi Arabia see rental yield soar by up to 50%

    Carrying out upgrades and modernising properties can yield an increase in rent revenue of between 25 and 50 per cent in a market that has been relatively flat outside the capital Riyadh, where 44 per cent of the kingdom's real estate transactions took place.

  • Saudi Arabia’s open banking strategy a game-changer

    In May 2022, the institution, also known as SAMA, went live with its open banking initiative, which has altered the future of financial technology in the Kingdom and the wider region. Open banking is a technological innovation that enables customers to securely share their data with third parties. “Open banking changes the very nature of relationships across the financial ecosystem for Saudi Arabia and for the region as a whole. This is only a good thing,” said Al-Moayed.

  • Saudi Arabia’s Booming Fashion Industry Offers Entrepreneurs Lucrative Opportunities

    The Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority (Monsha'at) released its report for the first quarter of 2024, shining a spotlight on the Kingdom's thriving fashion sector and the wealth of investment potential for entrepreneurs.

  • 60 Saudi students graduated from elite American universities

    As many as 60 Saudi scholarship students were graduated from a number of elite universities of the United States of America. The Saudi Club at Harvard University organized a ceremony to honor the graduates from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston University, and Tufts University at the Harvard Medical School in Boston on Friday.

  • Riyad Capital expects revived Saudi economy in 2024-2025

    The Saudi economy is likely to witness a recovery in 2024 and 2025, with continued strong growth in the non-oil sector, Riyad Capital expected in the Q2 2024 Saudi Economy Chartbook report.   The recovery will be driven by a growth-oriented fiscal policy and a focus on increasing investment expenditure to stimulate growth in the coming years.   According to the report, the non-oil sector is seen to grow by 4.8% in 2024 and 5.2% in 2025.

  • Private aviation soars in Saudi Arabia as more businesses take to the skies

    Valued at $1.2 billion in 2023 according to TechSCI research, this segment is projected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 8.88 percent between 2025 and 2029.

  • What a Turkish drone in the Raisi crash crisis reveals about Iran’s UAV capabilities

    Hours after the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian went down near the border of Azerbaijan Sunday, Iran reached out to its regional neighbor Turkey for assistance in finding the crash site through dense fog. Turkey dispatched one of its thermal- and night-vision capable, domestically produced AKINCI unmanned aerial vehicles, and, according to Turkish officials, they discovered the downed chopper. Turkish media released video of what was supposedly the “heat source” identifying the crash.