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  • Driving Ban Lifted
    To This Saudi Startup, Allowing Women To Drive Is A Game Changer

    Unsurprisingly, Saudi Arabia has the largest gender imbalance in labor force participation among G20 countries. Only 1.9 million of its 13.1 million women participate in the workforce — a labor participation rate of 20.2% — compared with 77.8% for men, according to G20 Labor Market Report 2016.

  • SMEs
    Four in 10 Startups in Saudi Arabia Are Owned by Women

    “This proves that the role of women in economic development has improved,” said the Governor of the General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia, Ghassan Al-Sulaiman.

  • Nuclear Power
    Saudi Arabia seeks international partners to develop nuclear and atomic energy sector

    The officials are said to have discussed the feasibility study of the Saudi project’s initial technical aspects, as well as front end engineering designs (FEED) for the construction of the project’s first two reactors.

  • KACare
    Saudi KACARE eyes energy project with international partners

    The President of King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE) Dr. Hashim Bin Abdullah Yamani has held here separate high-level meetings with representatives of Russian, US, Japanese and South Korean delegations to discuss carrying out the National Atomic Energy Project in the Kingdom, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported Thursday.

  • U.S. State Department
    State Department reform: Much ado about nothing?

    Secretary Rex Tillerson provided a preview of the plan on September 13, and if the final product is consistent with what’s been released thus far, it will be neither the assault on the department that many feared nor the transformative vision mandated by the President.

  • Chinese Peacekeepers
    China in Africa: China’s vision of itself as the world’s peacekeeper starts in Africa

    Over the last 15 years, China has ramped up its role in peacekeeping missions. Of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, it is the biggest contributor of peacekeepers and is among the world’s top 12 largest contributors of the troops. Chinese president Xi Jinping has pledged to expand China’s contribution to 8,000, from less than 3,000 deployed now.

  • Entrepreneurship
    Saudi restaurant management start-up raises $4m

    Saudi-based restaurant management system start-up, Foodics, raised $4 million during its Series A funding round.

  • Entertainment
    The Fun Starts Now: Saudi Government Launches $3 Billion Investment Drive In Entertainment Sector

    Last year it set up the General Authority for Entertainment, which is responsible for developing the entertainment sector. In February this year the country's first ever Comic-Con event was held in Jeddah. More recently, the government has said women would be welcome at the King Fahd stadium in Riyadh to attend national day celebrations – the first time this has happened.

  • Culture and Society
    The Saudi artists imagining Western pop icons in Bedouin style

    Clad in Bedouin attire from head to toe, "Sheikh" William of Arabia is smiling, seemingly content with having swapped Kensington Palace for a humble tent and camels.

  • Saudi-Egypt
    Egyptian, Saudi warplanes take part in joint war games

    Warplanes from allies Egypt and Saudi Arabia have begun joint war games that are coinciding with separate drills between Egypt and both the United States and Russia.