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Friday 6 May 2005 (28 Rabi` al-Awwal 1426)

Pay Them Decent Salaries

We have read that preparations are in progress for the recruitment of domestic workers from Vietnam instead of from Indonesia. As we are well aware, Indonesian workers have had many problems here in... Full Story


Stop the Carnage on Our Streets

More than 5,000 people dead. That was the latest figure released concerning the number of fatalities resulting from road accidents in the Kingdom. For those who may think this is the total number... Full Story


Disappointing Citizenship Law

Many expatriate workers and others who have been living in the Kingdom for years rejoiced over the announcement that they could submit applications to become Saudis. A new law has been passed... Full Story




We Don’t Need Any Such Thing

I have always been an advocate of elections. I eagerly awaited the recent municipal elections in the Kingdom, seeing in the process a historic shift, a landmark development that could transform Saudi... Full Story


Foreign Labor

Before the 1970s, Gulf states did not experience an influx of foreign workers like the one they did in the years that followed. By the late 1970s foreign laborers, mainly Asians, began arriving in... Full Story


A Mass Exodus

According to reports which quote the chairman of the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce & Industry (CSCCI), some 4,000 Saudi investors have recently moved to neighboring countries in order to do... Full Story


Privatizing Public Health Services

Recently published reports show that government hospitals made profits of more than SR100 million last year. The money entered government coffers thanks to a new policy that allows public health institutions... Full Story


The Widening Generation Gap

Psychologists and sociologists tell us that a good upbringing means transferring culture, values and experiences from one generation to another in an uninterrupted process which transforms children... Full Story


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