Saudi Arabia

A major industrial company in the Eastern Province plans to recruit 5,000 Indian workers affected by the Kingdom's Nitaqat program.

The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh has opened an extra consular office outside the Diplomatic Quarter to cater to hundreds of workers who need to legalize their status or apply for emergency travel docu

A number of Indian workers had their biometric details recorded yesterday at the crowded Jeddah deportation center, the final step needed for them to go home.

International and private schools in the Kingdom are already facing difficulties with the new laws issued by the Ministry of Labor and are poised to come under additional pressure as the Ministry of E

Several consulates in Jeddah are experiencing overcrowding due to expatriates wanting to legalize their work status by the July 3 deadline.

Two people on the wanted list were killed in a shooting spree on Monday in the Eastern Province, Lt. Col. Zeyad Al-Riqeiti, spokesman for the Eastern Province police department, said.

Local tourism experts predict that the political uprisings in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and other Arab countries has had an impact on Saudis’ vacation choices.

The higher board of the international Indian schools in the Kingdom has been reconstituted by the Indian Embassy.

My Diabetes Story, an online network exclusively for diabetics in the Middle East, has rapidly grown to over 1,000 members since its launch in November last year.

Turkey is seeking to attract 400,000 Saudi tourists this year, according to a Turkish diplomat in the Kingdom.