Samir Salama
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Saudis wear 8 times more perfume than Europeans
Saudis uses 2.5 litres of perfume a year, while Europeans use just 300ml → Read More
COVID-19: Saudi Arabia achieves herd immunity
70% of Kingdom’s population now inoculated with two vaccine doses → Read More
Saudi Arabia: Visit visa cannot be turned into residence visa
Employers allowing workers to work for others or be self-employed face jail, fine → Read More
Saudi Arabia: Runaway psych patient returned to Medina hospital
Nurse, passers-by chased the patient down, before security guards returned her → Read More
COVID-19: Saudi Arabia tops G20 in PCR tests, outing results
Kingdom completes 30m tests, contributing to limiting spread of COVID-19 → Read More
Saudi Arabia: Man offers wife his house to win her back
divorce Image Credit: Creative Commons Abu Dhabi: A Saudi man offered his wife his house to win her back, but she threw him out and filed for divorce, local media reported. The man filed a lawsuit against his wife, demanding that she returns the house. But the woman told the court the house was given in keeping with a wedding vow. The couple’s children testified before the court their father… → Read More
More than 96,000 Saudi graduates enter job market in 2020
Figures show more than 37,000 women joined work up to October 2020 → Read More
COVID-19: Saudi Arabia administers 44.7m vaccine doses
Kingdom pushing ahead with plan to inoculate 70% of 35m population this month → Read More
COVID-19: Train to vaccinate people across Tunisia
Country seeks to inoculate half of its population by end of October → Read More
Saudi regulator books real estate firms for violating advertising rules
4,300 illegal advertisements were seized, investors urged to verify ad sources → Read More
Saudi Arabia: Man offers wife SR1m to win her back
divorce Image Credit: Creative Commons Abu Dhabi: A Saudi man offered his wife SR1 million to win her back, but she filed for divorce and money, local media reported. The husband undertook to pay the money within six months,but told the court the payment on the wife returning to him. The court granted the divorce, but denied the money. → Read More
COVID-19: Saudi Arabia clarifies on switching between vaccines
Infections tally 547,404 including 536,730 recoveries and 8,751 deaths → Read More
Saudi Arabia jails, fines or deports 9,300 in a month
Citizens convicted of aiding illegals face 15 years in prison, SR1m fine → Read More
Saudi Arabia: Zamzam water containers return to Grand Mosque in Mecca
Move comes as authorities ease restrictions amid high COVID-19 immunisation rate → Read More
Saudi Arabia, UAE foil attempt to smuggle 1.5m amphetamines into Kingdom
Drug haul found hidden in truck laden with corn at Al Batha border checkpoint → Read More
COVID-19: Saudi Arabia administers 43.7m vaccine doses
20m people — 57.2% of population — fully vaccinated → Read More
Saudi woman seeks divorce two days after wedding saying husband concealed his baldness
She felt betrayed and accused husband of always covering his head with a ghutra → Read More
Saudi Arabia: 571,000 foreigners leave job market
Number of foreign workers decreases to 6.1m at end of June, from 6.7m a year before → Read More
Saudis ban trucks parking in Mecca neighbourhoods
Trucks, tankers, construction vehciles may only park in designated lots → Read More
Saudi Arabia: Filipino-Muslim preacher dies after 30 years teaching in Riyadh
Muhammad Delabina helped 30,000 people convert to Islam, before losing cancer battle → Read More