MUST-READS

• Saudi Arabia’s Digital Technology Forum highlights investment opportunities in the Kingdom

  The IT and ET market segment size is predicted to grow at a rate of 10% CAGR, surpassing $27 billion by 2025. Similarly, the IoT market size is expected to grow at a rate of 26% CAGR by 2025.

• SheWorks: The First Co-Working Space For Women in Saudi Arabia

  According to AboutHer.com,  SheWorks provides desks, office spaces, and conference rooms, offering start-up business consultation and governmental services to its clients, with workshops and classes to help “empower and educate female entrepreneurs.” The space also includes a meeting room that allows men to attend.

• First geophysical survey aircraft in Saudi Arabia launched

  The Geological Survey Authority (GSA) CEO Abdullah Al-Shamrani confirmed that the geophysical survey aims to obtain various high-resolution geological data in the Arabian Shield. The Arabian Shield, which covers an area of up to 600,000 square kilometers Saudi Arabia, is rich in mineral resources. Various mineral deposits have been detected in the region.

• Saudi Arabia launches platform to connect suppliers

  Saudi Arabia's procurement and offset agency, the General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI), has launched a new online platform to help connect stakeholders in the country's defence industrial base. Known as the Military Industry Marketplace, the platform is designed to help connect companies that have been authorised and licensed by GAMI to work in the military sector. Announced on 22 August, the platform is designed to help strengthen the country's localised supply chain, and connect domestic and foreign original equipment manufacturers so that higher levels of localisation can be undertaken.

• Saudi Arabia allows direct entry of fully vaccinated expats from countries facing travel ban

  This will be applicable only to those foreigners who have left the Kingdom on exit and reentry visa after taking two doses of vaccine against coronavirus from Saudi Arabia.

• 99% of Saudi school students receive first dose of COVID-19 vaccine

  The Ministry of Health stated that 99 percent of students in various phases of public education in the age group between 12 and 18 years have received the first dose of vaccine against coronavirus and are waiting for the second dose shortly.

• Saudi Arabia approves Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines

  Saudi Arabia on Tuesday approved two further COVID-19 vaccines, Sinovac and Sinopharm. There are currently four vaccines approved for use in the Kingdom: Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna. The Ministry of Health said it was possible for those who had completed their vaccination program with Sinopharm or Sinovac to be accepted in the Kingdom, provided they had received a booster shot of a vaccine that was approved in the country.

• How the UAE and Saudi Arabia are expanding the representation of women in the workplace

  More female employees are joining workplaces and boardrooms in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, with gender equality a key target of a regional drive to improve environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. While measurable progress has been achieved in recent years, there is room for further improvement in order to consolidate these changes into a lasting and broad-based transformation.

• Sectoral Investment Analysis for Saudi Arabia

  This study aims to investigate the determinants of short- and long-run investment behavior in Saudi Arabia for eight non-oil sectors.

• Iraq seeks to ease Saudi-Iran hostility at Baghdad summit

  Iraq has invited Iran and Tehran's Gulf Arab foes to a summit in Baghdad with the objective of calming tensions which have brought them close to open conflict in recent years. Officials say the meeting, which will also discuss the war in Yemen, Lebanon's collapse and a regional water crisis, could take a step towards Saudi-Iranian rapprochement even though they have yet to say what representation they will send.

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