Tourism & Hospitality | Sunday 12 April, 2015 12:06 am

Online travel sales to Saudi residents soar 40%

Online travel sales to residents in Saudi Arabia showed record 40% growth in 2014 to reach SR6.5 billion in 2015, with the figure set to double to SR13 billion by 2019.United Arab Emirates continues to be the most popular destination in 2014. The city of Dubai attracts a heavy number of Saudis...

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Business & Money | Saturday 11 April, 2015 1:42 pm

King opens historic Diriyah project

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman inaugurated on Thursday the historic Al-Bijairi project in Diriyah district that served as the first Saudi capital and platform of the reformist call in the Arabian Peninsula during the reign of the first Saudi state.Diriyah houses historical documents...

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Business & Money | Saturday 11 April, 2015 1:23 pm

Private sector employees want reduced working hours

Seventy-nine percent of private sector employees have asked that working hours be reduced to between 35 and 40 hours instead of the current 48 hours per week, according to a survey conducted by the National Center of Dialogue.Surprisingly, some 21 percent of the employees asked for an increase in...

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Technology & IT | Saturday 11 April, 2015 1:20 pm

Samsung and Apple clash with rollout of new products

Samsung has rolled out a new smartphone in a bid to regain market dominance as arch-rival Apple, eyeing the next generation of wearable technology, opened pre-sales for its first watch.Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and its curved-edge variant, the Galaxy S6 Edge, went on sale in South Korea, home of the...

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Culture & Education | Saturday 11 April, 2015 1:18 pm

School year ends early in some areas

Education Minister Azzam Al-Dakhil issued orders Thursday to end the school year for all schools located along the southern border, as a precautionary measure against any emergency situation in the region.Directors of schools along the border in Najran, Asir, Jazan, Sobya and Surah Abedia...

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Government | Saturday 11 April, 2015 12:55 pm

Shoura working on benefits package for martyr families

The Shoura Council is studying a proposal to create a martyrs’ directorate under the Ministry of Interior that would pay out SR1 million to their families, waive all their debts, appoint their sons in their positions if the law allows it, and pay their parents SR5,000 a month.The proposal...

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Business & Money | Saturday 11 April, 2015 12:48 pm

Mobily Ranan added (Yemen’s Victory) Tone

Mobily added to Ranan service the national song entitled (Yemen’s Victory). This exclusive song that was composed by the poet Hamid Zaid and was chanted by Mishary Al Afasy, is one among several national initiatives that Mobily is working on to share and celebrate the “Decisive Storm” with...

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Business & Money | Saturday 11 April, 2015 6:30 am

Deloitte responds to increasing demand for forensic services in Saudi Arabia and the region

With Saudi Arabia increasingly becoming a power house economy in the Middle East region and a significant source of capital to support the strengthening of the global economy, the rapid development of international and domestic business and the regulatory requirements to support it have led to a...

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Technology & IT | Friday 10 April, 2015 1:27 pm

Xerox Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape on MFP

Wins BLI’s Document Imaging Solutions Line of the Year Xerox office technology, software and apps continue to achieve industry recognition – most recently from IDC and Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) – while customers realize the benefits of Managed Print Services (MPS) facilitated by these...

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Business & Money | Friday 10 April, 2015 12:59 pm

Turkish Airlines’ Ordinary General Assembly Istanbul

As a result of the votes taken at the Turkish Airlines’ Ordinary General Assembly, Mr. İlker Aycı has been designated as Board Chairman of Turkish Airlines, and Dr. Temel Kotil will assume the role of Deputy Chairman in addition to his position as CEO.The Ordinary General Assembly of Turkish...

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