Tourism & Hospitality | Sunday 4 January, 2015 12:49 am

flynas Plays Leading Role in the Development of Saudi Manpower

Kingdom’s national carrier achieves over 60% Saudization as the result of world class training in different skills including Future Pilots ProgramRiyadh, January 2015: Fulfilling its ambitious vision to build a team of highly qualified Saudi employees, flynas, the Kingdom’s national carrier, is ...

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Business & Money | Sunday 4 January, 2015 12:27 am

NCB CAPITAL WINS BEST ASSET MANAGER IN THE MIDDLE EAST AWARD

NCB Capital, the leading provider of wealth management services in the GCC and Saudi Arabia’s largest asset manager, has won the Best Asset Manager in the Middle East Award at the Islamic Business & Finance Awards 2014.Presented at a gala ceremony held at the Emirates Towers hotel in Dubai, which ...

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Healthcare | Saturday 3 January, 2015 10:51 am

Disease-fighting body decentralized

Health Minister Mohammed Alhayazie has decentralized the command and control center (CCC) to all health departments nationwide, and moved the body’s headquarters to Riyadh.The directors of the 20 departments would now report to the headquarters in the capital city. The CCC had originally been set ...

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Business & Money | Saturday 3 January, 2015 10:02 am

Govt warns against quick-money schemes

The Ministry of Interior has cautioned citizens against hoax phone calls which make fake offers promising instant monetary gains.The cautionary note came in the wake of reports by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that said that several citizens had been tricked into parting with huge sums of money...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Friday 2 January, 2015 1:57 am

2015 packed with amazing celestial treats

Several amazing astronomical treats are likely this year, starting with a meteor shower on Saturday, an astronomer said here on Thursday.This would be followed by solar and lunar eclipses, and planets moving in unusual patterns later in the year, said Zaki Al-Mostafa, a Saudi professor at the...

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Tourism & Hospitality | Friday 2 January, 2015 12:29 am

Rixos unwraps fourth luxury hotel in Kazakhstan

Rixos Hotels has recently hosted a gala dinner in honour of celebrating the grand opening of ‘Rixos Khadisha Shymkent’ the first luxury hotel in Southern Kazakhstan, and fourth edition in the country.Mr Bugra Berberoglu CEO of Rixos Hotels said, this is “Rixos' 4th hotel in the...

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Business & Money | Thursday 1 January, 2015 3:11 pm

After third quarter 2014 GROHE Group on sustained uptrend with global growth

GROHE Group continues to grow. With sales up by around six percent, the Group generated sales of SAR 5.258 billion in the first nine months of this year, compared with SAR 4.966 billion in the same period of 2013. On a constant exchange rate basis, sales growth was no less than eight percent.With...

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Business & Money | Thursday 1 January, 2015 10:24 am

KAEC prepares phase-two of Industrial Valley project

The King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) is preparing the Industrial Valley phase- two land plots in continuation of phase one that is linked to King Abdullah Port. This comes by granting expert contractors to ensure a comprehensive infrastructure and sophisticated services that meet all the...

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Healthcare | Thursday 1 January, 2015 9:53 am

All hospitals ordered to treat emergency cases

New Health Minister Mohammed Ali Alhayazie has ordered all government and private hospitals to treat patients needing emergency care, and warned that there would be penalties for those failing to comply.In a circular issued to health facilities on Wednesday, Alhayazie said that they must provide...

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Business & Money | Monday 30 November, -0001 12:00 am

Senior Security Decision Makers Gather in Riyadh for IDC Security Roadshow

International Data Corporation (IDC) today hosted more than 200 of Saudi Arabia's most influential security decision makers at the Burj Rafal Hotel Kempinski in Riyadh for the 2019 edition of the IDC Security Roadshow. Running under the theme of 'Business Security: Risk &...

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