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There are plenty of job opportunities available for expat job seekers in Saudi Arabia, provided you can show the required knowledge and expertise in any field such as construction, financial services, medicine, IT, baking, and health care.
More than three years after the fall of strongman Muammar Qaddafi, Libya is in the midst of a bitter civil war. Political factions and armed groups fight for control of a country struggling with democracy, and state institutions barely function, particularly the army and police.
The compound annual growth rate of the region’s defense spending will grow about 3.48 percent from 2015-2019, according to a report by Nicole Auger, who covers Middle East defense spending for Forecast International. The figure for 2010-2014 was 8.45 percent, she said. Some of this decline is tied to the anticipated fall in oil prices, she said.
Jordan's King Abdullah II met his Saudi counterpart in Riyadh Sunday for talks as both nations participate in a US-led bombing campaign against Islamic State group extremists in Syria.
Setting a target of zero carbon emissions by 2050 is not “realistic,” Saudi Arabia’s chief negotiator at U.N. talks for a new, world climate pact said in Lima. “The zero-emissions concept — or let’s knock fossils fuels out of the picture without clear technology diffusion and solid international cooperation programs — does not help the process,” the Kingdom’s envoy, Khalid Abuleif, told journalists on the sidelines of the talks.
The Shoura Council is currently debating a new law to fight tasattur or illegal business activities conducted by expatriates in the name of Saudis. The law is significant as the country’s shadow economy is estimated at nearly SR250 billion (66 billion USD) annually.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s top crude exporter, will keep supplies at full contracted volumes for Asian term buyers in January, industry sources said yesterday, the latest sign the kingdom is holding firm against falling prices caused by oversupply.
The new e-services are in additon to Saher, which is a traffic management system launched in 2010 with the aim of reducing traffic accidents. The system links hundreds of fixed and mobile cameras and radars situated on key intersections and main highways across Saudi Arabia’s main cities to a central database. If anyone speeds, jumps a red light or breaks the country’s traffic laws, Saher photographs the offender’s licence plate, uploads the picture to the country’s central vehicle registration database, and immediately issues a fine to the vehicle’s owner.
Halliburton has added 30-year Saudi Aramco veteran, Abdulaziz F. Al Khayyal to its board of directors, the company officially announced just weeks after its multi-billion dollar merger with rival Baker Hughes.
On 5 December 2014, KEFI received confirmation that the 95km2 Hawiah Exploration Licence ("Hawiah EL") had been granted to KEFI's partner, Abdul Rahman Saad Al-Rashid & Sons Company Limited ("ARTAR"), on behalf of the KEFI-operated Gold and Minerals Joint Venture Company ("G&M"). Exploration work has now commenced and initial focus will be on a large Volcanogenic Hosted Massive Sulphide ("VHMS") target. VHMS deposits are closely associated with submarine volcanic rocks and are major sources of Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead and Silver. Testing will begin on a 4km-long gold mineralised gossan (surface-exposed iron-rich oxidized portion of the VHMS mineralisation).
