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  • Al-Rabiah moves to push foreign trade and investment
     

    Commerce and Industry Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah yesterday opened a major workshop for the development of Saudi commercial attaches as part of the ministry’s efforts to promote trade and investment relations with foreign countries. The workshop attended by top officials from related departments and agencies discussed ways to improve the performance of Saudi commercial attaches abroad […]

     
  • Chart of the Day: A Short History of 200 Years of Global Energy Use
     

    If you want to tell the story of worldwide energy consumption over the past 200 years, you need three chapters. Chapter 1: The Coal Age. Chapter 2: The Oil Age. Chapter 3: The China Age. In the early days of industrialization, the use of biofuels such as wood declined as the West learned to live […]

     
  • Critical Commercial and Economic Ties: Interview with Jose Fernandez
     

    The 2nd US-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum in Atlanta in December brought together a high level delegation of over 200 Saudi officials and business people with over 1000 Americans to explore the $1 trillion-plus commercial openings available in the coming decade in the Kingdom. The response to the Forum – and what it means for American investment and […]

     
  • Saudi Arabia will act to lower soaring oil prices
     

    In an op-ed in the Financial Times, Ali Al Naimi writes, “High international oil prices are bad news. Bad for Europe, bad for the US, bad for emerging economies and bad for the world’s poorest nations. A period of prolonged high prices is bad for all oil producing nations, including Saudi Arabia, and they are […]

     
  • “Out in the Blue” Part 9 of Video Series “Distant Arabia”
     

    In this clip excerpted with permission from the documentary The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power based on the book of the same name by Daniel Yergin, the story of Tom Barger’s first journey to Saudi Arabia is related through his movies and letters. The complete story is told in Barger’s book […]

     
  • GE wins $200mn power plant conversion contract in Saudi Arabia
     

    GE said it has received a contract for nearly $200 million to supply steam turbine technology, power generation services and distributed control systems for the conversion of Saudi Electricity Co.’s (SEC) PP10 power plant from simple to combined-cycle operation. The project will add 1,300 MW to the plant’s capacity. “The conversion to combined-cycle operation is […]

     
  • Secretary of State Clinton to Visit Saudi on Friday and Saturday
     

    Clinton will be in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh Friday and Saturday. There, she’ll meet with Saudi King Abdullah and participate in an event dedicated to the “strategic cooperation” between the U.S. and Gulf Arab states. Washington and many of its allies say Syrian President Bashar Assad has lost all legitimacy in a year of […]

     
  • Saudi Arabia Jeddah Weddings
     

    I was approached, a couple of months ago by a media company, about the wedding video I made for my cousin’s wedding. The company makes documentaries and would like to make a documentary about modern day Saudi couples in Jeddah getting married. They were, in my opinion, too optimistic, but then again I am a […]

     
  • Car-nage
     

    In his weekly piece for Arab News, Abdulateef Al-Mulhim takes a look at the extraordinary toll exacted on Saudi roads. With well-engineered roads and streets and access to the latest and safest automobiles, he says, Saudi Arabia still leads the world in highway fatalities. He offers a few ideas about how to gain control over […]

     
  • Saudi Aramco Rethinks Global Communications Strategy
     

    Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, is rethinking its global communications strategy as it undertakes an ambitious corporate transformation. The company is understood to be actively seeking public relations agency support across a wide range of areas, including media relations, internal communications, and event management. The review covers Saudi Aramco’s operations in the Gulf, North […]

     

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  • Blinken scraps Jordan stop on Gaza truce tour, heading to Saudi Arabia instead

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for talks on normalization with Israel as he pushes for a ceasefire in Gaza, a US official tells reporters. Blinken, who is on a regional tour expected to last throughout the week, will travel to Saudi capital Riyadh instead of previous plans to head to Jordan due to scheduling issues, the official says on condition of anonymity. The normalization deal is widely seen as dead in the water, as Riyadh is now conditioning it on the establishment of a Palestinian state — a nonstarter for Israel.

  • Saudi Arabia enlists BlackRock to improve MBS market: Report

    According to data available on Argaam, the Saudi Real Estate Refinance Co. (SRC) signed an agreement with BlackRock to develop the real estate finance sector, expand the local and international investor base, and ensure market stability and diverse financing options.

  • Rafael Nadal gives brutally honest verdict on Saudi Arabia criticism and sportswashing claims

    “What happens is that there comes a certain moment when you can be in one place or another, based on your opinion. I respect all opinions, as long as mine are also respected,” Nadal began. “Do they pay me to come here? Yes. But we must not lose perspective. You come here and what do you think? Are you doing good or bad? Because the only problem in the end is that you get paid for it. “Because, really, by coming here, you help the country. And those who speak in such a drastic way against the country, very well. “So, what do you want? For them to continue being bad, for them to continue keeping the country locked up, with more inequality? There is only one reality. “In the end, by coming here, we make events happen and tourists come, something that didn’t happen four or five years ago.

  • Trees of the Gulf: Olive Trees and a Mediterranean Diet in the Desert

    Aside from the sea itself, there is nothing that defines Mediterranean culture and heritage more than the olive tree. While entrepreneurs and immigrants from the Mediterranean to places with similar climates, such as California and parts of Australia, have planted olive groves and developed small industries, olive oil from outside the Mediterranean is a niche product, rarely held in high regard. But Saudi Arabia is challenging the Mediterranean’s 6,000-year hold on olive oil on a grand scale.

  • Attackers kill 5, injure 22 at Turkish aviation site

    Two attackers killed five people and wounded 22 others on Wednesday in what Ankara called a terrorist attack at the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters, where witnesses said they heard gunfire and an explosion. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said both attackers were killed after the attack, adding two of the injured are in critical condition. TV broadcasters showed footage of armed assailants entering the TUSAS building near Ankara.

  • Lebanon’s cash economy surge drives FATF grey-listing concerns

    Lebanon is set to be placed on a financial crime watchdog’s grey list this week, with experts pointing to the country’s expanding cash economy and parallel financial system as key drivers behind the designation, according to senior economists and sources familiar with the matter. The designation comes as Lebanon grapples with a complex web of challenges, including a widespread shift away from traditional banking following the 2019 financial crisis, which has created new vulnerabilities in the financial system.

  • BRICS Summit 2024: Key moments from day 1 of Kazan talks

    The opening day featured traditional performances and cultural exchanges. Putin is scheduled for approximately 20 bilateral meetings, including talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas regarding Gaza. In addition, a significant Modi-Xi meeting is planned for Wednesday, their first since recent border tensions. The summit will conclude with the Kazan Declaration on Thursday, focusing on economic cooperation, alternative payment systems, and global challenges.

  • MBC Studios Head Zeinab Abu Alsamh on Training the Next Generation of Saudi Talent

    Prior to joining Saudi Arabia’s MBC Group in 2021, Zeinab Abu Alsamh, one of The Hollywood Reporter‘s 2024 Most Powerful Women in International TV, served as chief commercial officer of the Saudi Broadcasting Authority, where she was responsible for the programming strategies of its entire broadcast portfolio. At MBC Studios, the in-house premium content production arm of MBC Group, she oversees the production and development of new projects, while also serving as CEO of MBC Academy, which discovers and nurtures emerging talent.

  • Saudi Surgeon Honored for Performing the World’s First Fully Robotic Heart Transplant

    The award also commemorates his successful completion of the world’s first robotic heart transplant on a 16-year-old patient suffering from end-stage (Class IV) heart failure. This achievement represents a turning point in heart transplant surgery practices, with a medical approach that relies on minimal surgical intervention, thereby reducing pain, shortening recovery times, and minimizing the risks of complications.

  • Saudi FM arrives in Russia’s Kazan to attend BRICS summit

    Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived in Russia’s Kazan to head the Kingdom’s delegation at the BRICS summit as “a country which is invited to join the group,” Al-Ekhbariya said on Wednesday. Prince Faisal is representing King Salman at the meeting of around 20 world leaders. In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, the BRICS group said it was “deeply concerned about ongoing conflicts and instability in the Middle East and North African region.”